"No doubt unity is something to be desired,……" — Theodore Bikel
"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."
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57 Quotes by Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel has 57 quotes on this site.
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
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We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
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I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that…
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and…
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read,…
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just…
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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of…
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were…
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of…
— Tony Blair
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I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States.…
— Herman Cain
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility…
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
— Abraham Lincoln
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From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and…
— John Quincy Adams
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