Chains Quotes - Page 11

• The domestic NSA-led Surveillance State which Frank Church so stridently warned about has obviously come to fruition. The way to avoid its grip is simply to acquiesce to the nation's most powerful factions, to obediently remain within the permitted boundaries of political discourse and activism. Accepting that bargain enables one to maintain the delusion of freedom - "he who does not move does not notice his chains," observed Rosa Luxemburg - but the true measure of political liberty is whether one is free to make a different choice.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Moving, Nsa

  "Surveillance State evils". www.salon.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ's church and take the Gospel everywhere.

  Billy Graham

  Men, Church, Ministry

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.39, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Men, Mind

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• Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Book, Important, Matter

  Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.370, Diversion Books

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• Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.

  Mark Skousen

  War, Expression, Ideas

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• Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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• In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Believe, Men, Made

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.164

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• I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.

  Hilary Hahn

  Thinking, Jeans, People

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• Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

  D. A. Carson

  People, Tolerance, Sooner Or Later

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• How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!

  Bill Crawford

  People, Giving, Jerk

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• The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.

  Russell Sherman

  Ideas, Pages, Lasts

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• It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Too Short, Mass

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.101, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Doctors, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library

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• In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny . And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities and the fulfilment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.

  Siad Barre

  Believe, Destiny, Order

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• Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Years, People

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015). “Between the World and Me”, p.48, Spiegel & Grau

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• You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Successful, Perfect, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

  Rick McCallum

  Jobs, Giving, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kindness, Our World, Together

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• Changing eating habits in the North is an important link in the chain of events needed to create environmentally sustainable development that meets people's needs. The Beyond Beef campaign is an important step in that direction.

  Walden Bello

  People, Important, Development

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• Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Feet, Hands

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• I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.

  Shel Israel

  Two, Lawyer, Politician

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• The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Land, Interesting

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

  Henry Rollins

  Four, Next, Film

  "EXCLUSIVE: Talking TV, Movies and Punk Rock with Henry Rollins". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 4, 2006.

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• The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

  Leonard Sweet

  Conformity, Unison, Clicks

  Leonard I. Sweet, Lance Ford (2011). “I Am a Follower: The Way, Truth, and Life of Following Jesus”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

  John Bunyan

  Deliverance, My Own

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