Own Hands Quotes
193 quotes by 169 authors
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The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good…
— Mario Batali
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The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for…
— Mark Bittman
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
— Abdallah II
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Every man's in his own hands, with a little help from his brothers.
— Janet Morris
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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence…
— Saint Augustine
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Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons…
— Rajneesh
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When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
— Frank Herbert
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Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive…
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and…
— Salvador de Madariaga
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own…
— William O. Douglas
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We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species…
— Carl Sagan
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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god,…
— R C Sproul
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many…
— Khalil Gibran
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The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own…
— Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
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We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and…
— Justin Martyr
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He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
— Salvador de Madariaga
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The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to…
— Joel Barlow
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure…
— Sun Tzu
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