Association Quotes - Page 3

• We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

  Jose Marti

  People, Evil, Political

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Swear To God, People, Hot

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• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Blue, Color

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• One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

  Aldo Rossi

  Memories, Cities, Collective Memory

  Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

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• To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

  Publilius Syrus

  Betrayal, Self, Betrayed

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• The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Government

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.86

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• Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

  Franz Kafka

  Self, Literature, Observation

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Men, Political

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.87, Book Tree

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• The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

  William O. Douglas

  Loyalty, Decision, Political

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Impossible, Disgusted, Lowest

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.22

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• Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Balance

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• An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Politics, Towns

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.394

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• I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

  Pete Seeger

  Religious, Philosophical, Political

  "The day Pete Seeger faced down the HUAC as though, well, he had a hammer" by Scott Martelle, www.latimes.com. January 29, 2014.

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• Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Past, Years, Numbers

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• Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

  Joseph Priestley

  Ideas, Doctrine, Cases

  Joseph Priestley (1777). “The Doctrine of Philofophical Neceffity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Difquifitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is Added an Anfwer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind [by Joseph Perington].”, p.36

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• The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.

  Patricia Ireland

  Christian, Roots, Years

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• If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Country, Party, Gun

  "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.

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• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Freedom, Blessing

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• But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

  Aristide Briand

  Views, Political, Links

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• After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

  Ron Chernow

  Hero, Years, Becoming

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• Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Memories, Smell, Imagination

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.75, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

  Melvin Belli

  Book, Law, Bars

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• The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.

  Diogenes

  Sun

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• Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

  William Golding

  Character, Mean, Views

  William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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