Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are leftwing governments I'm very critical of. For me, being leftwing is to live in a society where there's permanent… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There… — Bud Selig Copy Share Image
If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees. … — Dawn Chalker Copy Share Image
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88) — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the… — John Perry Copy Share Image
Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost,… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle. — Mother Meera Copy Share Image
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If you were just a regular person, you turned on the TV, and you saw Eric Cantor talking, I would say—and I'm… — Brian Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I really like when critics reveal their subjectivity and their humanity. I prefer it when people say nice things, but if they… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image