"War is the admission of defeat in the……" — Germaine Greer
"War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests."
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128 Quotes by Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer has 128 quotes on this site.
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
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Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
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A garden is the best alternative therapy.
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for…
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
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The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
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Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental…
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Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only…
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As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones,…
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
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There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that…
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There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
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More Admission Quotes
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
— Edward Kennedy
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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific…
— John Dewey
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Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit…
— Julia Cameron
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Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform.…
— Lawrence Reed
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in…
— Charles Lyell
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Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would…
— Robyn Dawes
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great…
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that…
— Cleveland Amory
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get…
— Max Lerner
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Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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