"It is not the nature of man, as……" — Frances Perkins
"It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to breed laxity, but a healthy discontent keeps us alert to the changing needs of our time."
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15 Quotes by Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins has 15 quotes on this site.
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just…
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You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a…
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The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction…
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either…
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Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening…
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In America, public opinion is the leader
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I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
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Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when…
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This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right?…
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind…
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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion…
— Harold Brodkey
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
— Kirstie Alley
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I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and…
— Robert H. Schuller
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward…
— Barry Lopez
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain…
— Rajneesh
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