Abject Quotes

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of… — Jean Baudrillard
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us… — Jean Baudrillard
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a… — Berkeley Breathed
Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill. — John O. Brennan
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real… — Charles Darwin
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. — William Hazlitt
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. — Epictetus
The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use… — George Washington
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of… — Thomas Carlyle
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. — Henry A. Kissinger
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love. — Antony Flew
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to… — James Russell Lowell
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to… — James Bovard
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as… — Pat Robertson
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to… — Jean Baudrillard
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still… — Bob Newhart
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both… — Samuel Adams
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any… — George Washington
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want… — Errico Malatesta

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