Grand Scale Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
— James A. Baldwin
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[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is…
— Leonard Read
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Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the…
— Linus Pauling
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My mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level. They're humiliating, embarrassing. But if nothing bad happens to you, you'll just continue…
— Christian Slater
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Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
— Rudolf Virchow
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That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.
— Julian Assange
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I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract,…
— Claes Oldenburg
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Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.
— Marian Burros
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Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were…
— Kage Baker
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War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
— Newton Lee
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Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes…
— William J. Clinton
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In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of…
— Wernher von Braun
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The grand scale and immersive nature of The IMAX Experience gives Spiderwick a brand new level of excitement. In IMAX theatres, fans will be drawn…
— Mark Canton
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I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I…
— Kate Bush
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as…
— Philip Yancey
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Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief…
— John Taylor Gatto
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In the Digital Age, recorders also tend to be oversharers, and with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest, they can do so on a grand scale.
— Graydon Carter
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Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale.…
— Paul Johnson
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to…
— Bat for Lashes
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Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of…
— Charles Francis Adams II
Who Wrote These Grand Scale Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Grand Scale Quotes as follows: