Their Own Hands Quotes
43 quotes by 40 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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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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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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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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In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was…
— John Hume
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have…
— John Dickinson
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able…
— Boris Johnson
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As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide.…
— James W. Loewen
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A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can…
— Noah Webster
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The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist…
— Mao Zedong
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It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The…
— Paul Kurtz
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Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of…
— Ella Reeve Bloor
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The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into…
— John L. Lewis
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The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.
— Emiliano Zapata
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's…
— Orrin Hatch
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own…
— Anne Frank
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Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere…
— William Hague
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