Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Fawaz Gerges

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Jackie Speier

This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

M. Wolfe

You're just making difficulties and problems all the time. Isn't your continued work in the civil service important to you? After all, you won't be able to continue working with us this way. Don't you have any ambitions to get ahead?

Hubert Humphrey

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Donald Trump

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It`s not a silent majority, it`s really a noisy majority.

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Alfred Rosenberg

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

Aldous Huxley

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

Princeton Lyman

What it has not been able to do, really, has been to stop the movement of people and weapons down the coast.

Dorothy Height

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Donnie Yen

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

Deepak Chopra

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

John Gregory

a sense of well-being so profound that I did not want to go to sleep.

Marilynne Robinson

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

Mariska Hargitay

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

Nicole Krauss

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.

Montgomery Clift

James Dean’s death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don’t know why,

Michel de Montaigne

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Gary Zukav

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

Hilary Swank

I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.