Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathy Collins

Any time a person intentionally strikes a law enforcement officer we take it very seriously. It's a felony. It's a very brazen act. It's not tolerated.

Roger Butler

Back then it was part of life. Today, they want to make another law.

Sam Gerdano

People think the (bankruptcy) law is going to be repealed on Oct. 17. It's not.

Terry Palmisano

People seem to think we say to kill it, that that's our first recommendation. But it's not....We always look for another way. But in the end, the law does say we can kill the animal.

Antonin Scalia

Antitrust law is not there to protect the merchant, but to protect the consumer,

Don Roberts

The self-employed person can't just go to the end of the year and say here's how much I owe. You are required by law to make payments during the year.

Velimir Ilic

No way are we going to settle for a run-off, and that is now the law for everyone in this country.

Mike Graves

Sometimes that's the only law you can find.

Goldwin Smith

Roman law in the same manner was a rule of expediency, rightly or wrongly conceived, with comparatively little tincture of religion.

Neil Diamond

As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'

Rosa Durando

Addie did nothing different than her white counterparts have been doing for years.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Albert Einstein

Common sense consists of those layers of prejudice laid down before the age of 18.

Alexander Pope

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

E. O. Wilson

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do...

Dorothy Day

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

Dalai Lama

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

Andrew Weil

The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

Andrew Tobias

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

Thomas Huxley

Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.