Demand Quotes
2397 Demand quotes by 1748 unique authors
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There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation…
— Bruno Walter
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Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,…
— E F Schumacher
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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
— Pope Leo XIII
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As Our Predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.
— Daniel Goleman
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the…
— Ossie Davis
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The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events…
— Nelson Rockefeller
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come…
— Roald Dahl
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One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that…
— Oscar Romero
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That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an…
— Oscar Romero
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God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.
— Andrew Jackson
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The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.…
— Henry A. Wallace
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If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion…
— Rebecca West
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Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe…
— Tom Robbins
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
— John Charles Polanyi
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The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws…
— Rudolf Steiner
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The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated…
— Ayn Rand
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It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the…
— Unknown Author
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Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or…
— Haroon Siddiqui
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When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate…
— Unknown Author
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Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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