"There can be no compromise with war; it……" — Jeannette Rankin
"There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense."
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Jeannette Rankin
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20 Quotes by Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin has 20 quotes on this site.
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We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.
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As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
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Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.
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Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
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The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed…
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I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.
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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
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I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.
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It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end…
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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
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War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
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Killing more people won't help matters.
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More Codified Quotes
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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that…
— Florence Nightingale
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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to…
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice…
— Peter Canisius
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The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share…
— Lavinia Greenlaw
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A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks…
— Ruth Reichl
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Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as…
— Yvon Chouinard
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If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never…
— David Foster Wallace
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People are so codified - it's sad.
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
— S I Hayakawa
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To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial,…
— Raymond Sokolov
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