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«Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
exact, imposed, injustice, quietly, submit
«Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
amount, blows, continue, endurance, exact, imposed, injustice, limits, oppress, prescribed, prescribes, resisted, submit, submitting, tyrants
«And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Mankind,
Religion
| Keywords:
apt, bring about, compelled, competence, devoid, devoid of, disorders, experts, free state, novelties, slavishly, submit, subversion, subversions, whatsoever, whim
«Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Intelligence,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
courageously, Great Spirit, hereditary, honestly, intelligence, latter, opposition, oppositions, prejudices, spirits, submit, submitting, thoughtlessly, uses, violent
«Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
Believe It Or Not, bet, betting, Christianity, eternity, Everything or Nothing, false, gained, get to, Good Life, good turn, hell, illusion, I Bet You, marked, out to, Peace of God, spend, submit, submitting, turns, ultimately, you bet
«A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Advertising,
Emotion
| Keywords:
appeal, Appeal To Reason, emotionally, hypnoid, impress, intellectually, sector, submit, suggestion
«A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
anywhere, compromised, compromises, compromising, dishonourable, humiliations, indistinguishable, near, office, politician, professional, professionally, streetwalker, submit, submitting, The Professionals
«A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
Negro, observers, remarked, submit, The Observer, The White, unprepared
«Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
seeming, submit, terrors, trifles
«Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even s»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Failure,
Mistakes,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
acceptance, answer, fierce, fiercer, fiercest, generous, kinds, mere, merest, off, personal, submit, submitting, Taking Off
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