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Nothing Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you…
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
- The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and…
- Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
- A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under…
- The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
- Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
- This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.
- If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer…
- For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
- It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of…
- For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea…
- Not everything that we face can be changed but nothing can be changed until it's faced.
More Nothing Quotes
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes