Force Quote by David Bezmozgis Download Open image “I think having an uncompromising ideology eventually forces you out of the norm.” — David Bezmozgis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Force Ideology Norm Thinking Uncompromising
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself -… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear… — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in. — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I believe I'm very conscious of exactly what I'm doing. I'm auditioning lines of dialogue, and I'm interrogating whether the lines would translate from… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory,… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask the moral… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Most people will reach a point where, whatever their ideology, they will relent, or conform, and that keeps them kind of in the general… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
We all have some ideological quotient in ourselves. And I think it does guide who we are. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image