Proper Quotes

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The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long… — Eugene V. Debs
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the… — John Stuart Mill
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor… — Andrew Carnegie
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing… — John D. Rockefeller
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it. — Giovanni Boccaccio
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of… — William Rehnquist
No other art-mediumâ€“neither painting nor poetryâ€“can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in… — Ingmar Bergman
Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother — Patricia Highsmith
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. — John Cage
Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't. — John Green
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention. — Madam C. J. Walker
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own… — Samuel Johnson
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves… — Confucius
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. — H. L. Mencken
Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good… — Thomas Szasz
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning… — Arthur Lynch

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