Demand Quotes

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A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. — Susanna Kaysen
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom… — Alan Dershowitz
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best… — Learned Hand
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others… — Eric Hoffer
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as… — Louis D. Brandeis
What then is your duty? What the day demands. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life… — Tom Robbins
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I… — Carl Linnaeus
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for… — Ayn Rand
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the… — Leonard Peikoff
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher.… — Henry Hazlitt
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak… — Bertolt Brecht
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear… — William E. Simon
â€ŽOnce we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand… — Audre Lorde
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes… — Humphry Davy
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and… — Charles Lindbergh

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