Levers Quotes

78 quotes by 75 authors

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. — Napoleon Bonaparte
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to… — Noam Chomsky
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the… — Frances Harper
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one… — Arthur Eddington
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has… — Bruce D. Porter
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in… — Edward Alsworth Ross
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and… — Scott Woods
But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody,… — Mark Wahlberg
There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell… — Celia Rees
If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in… — Michael Ruhlman
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep… — Noah Porter
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. — Edward Abbey
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.… — Isaac Babel
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there… — E T A Hoffmann
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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