"There are few things under heaven more unnerving……" — James A. Baldwin
"There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people."
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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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More Accumulating Quotes
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
— Mark Twain
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
— George Carlin
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We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion.…
— Rajneesh
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your…
— Denis Waitley
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Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
— Robin Sharma
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result…
— P T Barnum
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise…
— Unknown Author
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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