"People who shut their eyes to reality simply……" — James A. Baldwin
"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin has 339 quotes on this site.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters…
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn…
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.
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In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I…
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Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.
— Theodor Adorno
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Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon…
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat…
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
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Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
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