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7249 Least quotes by 4306 unique authors

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to… — Mike Farrell
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. — Dorothy Parker
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for… — Helen Prejean
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given… — Bob Barr
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts… — William Matthews
When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the… — Thomas Boswell
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias… — Robert Graves
Where a government has come into power through some form of popular vote, fraudulent or not, and maintains at least an appearance of constitutional legality,… — Che Guevara
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a… — Michael Kinsley
Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the… — George Bernard Shaw
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all… — Ludwig von Mises
Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good… — Augustin Thierry
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well,… — Noam Chomsky
I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns… — Valerie Harper
Now it is the least developed world who are not responsible for this climate change phenomenon that bore the brunt of climate change consequences so… — Ban Ki-moon
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon.… — Ban Ki-moon
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of… — David Bellamy
Often those who are denied rights are least empowered to bring about the changes they seek. — Hillary Clinton
Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must… — Thomas Kuhn
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal. — Jeff Sessions
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So… — Jim Cooper
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and… — James Madison

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