Advocated Quotes

62 quotes by 58 authors

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton… — Tony Campolo
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. — Frederick Douglass
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. — Ulysses S. Grant
To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining… — Martin Van Buren
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'… — Ayn Rand
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. — Ronald Reagan
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated. — Lawrence Summers
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. — Oprah Winfrey
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain… — Thomas Jefferson
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration. — Samuel Untermyer
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every… — Marwan Barghouti
I consider itâ€¦as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Governmentâ€¦and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to… — James Madison
If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think… — Ingrid Newkirk
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes,… — Njabulo S Ndebele
Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred,… — Gautama Buddha
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. — Rutherford B. Hayes
I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change — Assata Shakur
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated… — Stanley Hauerwas

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