Acceptable Quotes - Page 28

• I want to change the cycle of stigma and prejudice that destroys lives all over the world every day. Until we can get in front of people and awaken them to the idea that this is not acceptable.

  Timothy Shriver

  Ideas, People, Prejudice

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.

  Robert H. Frank

  Believe, Thoughtful, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

  George Harrison

  Hippie, Yoga, Thinking

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• It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

  Mitt Romney

  President, Essentials, Clear

  Source: genius.com

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• In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.

  William Kristol

  Running, Jobs, Character

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable for military to specifically target civilians, which is what's happened there, through the Russian military.

  Marco Rubio

  Military, War, Target

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• [Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Fighting, Men, Color

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I believe there are a lot of questions today that require expert analysis by various agencies: political agencies, foreign ministries, economic agencies and security agencies. We need to assess everything and understand what we can agree on and what the implications will be both for Japan and for Russia so that both the Russian people and the Japanese people come to the conclusion that these compromise solutions are acceptable and are in our countries' interests.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Russia

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Hence, at the moment of the creation of the universe, God could also have activated evolution, with full knowledge of how it would turn out, perhaps even including our having this conversation. The idea that he could both foresee the future and also give us spirit and free will to carry out our own desires becomes entirely acceptable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ideas, Giving, Desire

  Source: inters.org

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• I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Art, Father, Things In Life

  Source: observer.com

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• If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Past, Behavior, Trump

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying to do, is again, a tautology, it's true by definition because we were doing, and the state is noble by definition. That's called "extreme liberalism".

  Noam Chomsky

  Ideas, Democracy, Trying

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.

  Henry Giroux

  Violence, Opinion, Range

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

  Barack Obama

  Bullying, People, Peer Pressure

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• A Christian should know that God is a Creator, that God is an entity that is all-powerful and all knowledgeable, God is everywhere and God is an entity filled with grace, love, compassion and forgiveness, that Jesus is the son of God and Jesus came on earth to explain to people in a very revolutionary way the nature of God, that God was not a stern judge who was keeping track of 600 or so rules and regulations that you had to keep in order to be acceptable to God.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Iron, Trust In God

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• Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

  Charles Simeon

  Prayer, Broken, Soul

  Charles Simeon (1838). “Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: Together with One Hundrer Skeletons, Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University”, p.196

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• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Ideas, Numbers, People

  "Work or lose your benefits: Iain Duncan Smith heralds biggest shake-up of welfare state since the war". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 28, 2010.

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• Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

  Pope John Paul II

  Suicide, Names, Catholic

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• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  Irwin Shaw

  Figure Skating, Figures, Sissy

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• There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nails, Hammers, Jokes

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

  Rose Macaulay

  Food, Cooking, Culture

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

  Alexandra Harney

  Animal, Lines, Arbitrary

  "A Love Story About... A Rat Named Mr. Tiffany" by Alexandra Harney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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• No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

  Irving Kristol

  Modern, Foreign Policy, Nations

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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