Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Dale Owen

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

William Cowper

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Whoopi Goldberg

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.

William Dean Howells

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

Kevin Bales

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Mika

Life without hope, the slavery of mankind-a bondage so hopeless that slaves will no longer know they are slaves. Wealth without happiness, abundance without the power to enjoy it. The death of the spirit.

Karl Marx

The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

Patrick Henry

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

Richard P. Feynman

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Samuel Johnson

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Manly Hall

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.

John Brunner

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

Olga Kurylenko

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

Kenneth R. Miller

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

Haruki Murakami

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

Hiroichi Nishi

Key U.S. monthly jobs data, due later in the day, a three-day weekend and concerns that the Tokyo market has gone too far too fast are expected to encourage investors to take profits.

Paul Spiegelman

I would support a recall of the mayor. I'm really troubled when a man talks about sunshine and hatches deals in back rooms. I'm very concerned that the process is being manipulated by some very wealthy people.

Robin Cook

It accentuates our grave concern about the increased risk of nuclear and missile proliferation in South Asia, and of escalating tension in that region.

Joe Donnelly

I talk about it. It's a concern to a lot of people.

Kelly Kisio

I think it'll be fine and I know there's some concern on a lot of people's part but if you watch around the league, the guys who play, and play a lot, get better. It might be tough for a year or so but once those guys get playing, they'll become good hockey players.

Kelly Williams

I always felt his game was ready (for the NBA). I was concerned about the off-the-court issues and mentally.

Neil Rodman

He was a great kid. He was always concerned of what people thought of him and he went out of his way to make sure people liked him. He was very caring.

Greg Aiello

He wants to share with them his perspective on what has happened and where they go from here. He wants to have a dialogue with them and hear their concerns and suggestions about how things can be better next year.

Craig Patrick

He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.