Chiefs Quotes - Page 16

• One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

  Robert Benchley

  Baseball, Running, Men

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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• Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Believe, Men, Democracy

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.119, Take Root Media

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• Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

  Edward Abbey

  Lasts, Staff, Pentagon

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Responsibility, Two

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.

  Edward Abbey

  Law, Space, Alaska

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Evil, Unlimited

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Mean, Two

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.298

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• My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirit, whether they be famous or humble.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Heart, Humble, Joy

  Yousuf Karsh (1969). “Yousuf Karsh”

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• The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Believe, Sea, Pirate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Punishment, Community, Criminals

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.115, Oxford University Press

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• More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Birth Control, Fit

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• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

  William James

  Responsibility, Self, Worry

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

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• An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Arrogance

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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• My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

  Michele Bachmann

  Function, Ability, Commander In Chief

  "What doctors have to say about Bachmann's migraines". www.nbcnews.com. July 20, 2011.

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• It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

  Mark Rothko

  Mean, Reality, Artist

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.21, Yale University Press

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• Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

  Elio Di Rupo

  Jobs, Government, Two

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• I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Father, Thinking

  "Rice speech sparks 2016 speculation" by Kevin Cirilli, Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Law, Games

  "With Walt Whitman in Camden". Book by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV (p. 508), 1906.

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• If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Justice, United States, Court

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

  Nathan Hale

  Order, Execution, Given

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• Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Doors, Soul

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.152

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• The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

  Helen Keller

  Attitude, People, Blind

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.105, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I have high respect for the Chief Justice and the institution he represents. But, I equally demand respect to the institution I represent.

  Juan Ponce Enrile

  Justice, Demand, Institutions

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• The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.

  Johannes Kepler

  Math, Order, World

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• Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.

  Chief Joseph

  Death, Children, Heart

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