Abject Quotes

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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized… — Kofi Annan
In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is… — Ravi Zacharias
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. — Geoffrey Canada
It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you. — Stuart Roosa
Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of… — Bill W.
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning… — Steve Almond
Almost everyone believes that at some level birthmothers make a choice to give their babies away. ...Adoption is rarely about mothers' choices; it is, instead,… — Rickie Solinger
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror… — Thomas A. Edison
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. — Ayn Rand
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious,… — Edith Wharton
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of… — John Owen
My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionismâ€”its supreme test and, as now is… — Michael Pollan
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse. — H. L. Mencken
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive â€” a… — Ayn Rand
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their… — Albert Camus
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity… — George Mason

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