Conventions Quotes - Page 19

• If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

  Clint Eastwood

  Political, Dumb, Enough

  "Clint Eastwood on RNC Speech: I Wouldn't Be Afraid to Do It Again". extratv.com. September 17, 2012.

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• A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Challenges, Radical, Willingness

  Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

  Elbridge Gerry

  War, Foundation, Constitution

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• One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Doe, Opponents

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a community which shares such a scorn and disrespect for the present society that it can embrace the whole bundle of rules and subvert them thereby, that should be our goal.

  Howard Adelman

  Men, Goal, Community

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• I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

  Percy Barnevik

  Law, Support, Groups

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• We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

  Soichiro Honda

  Dream, Challenges, Made

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• Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

  Robert Fulghum

  Jobs, Law, Secret

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• Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.

  Dziga Vertov

  Mean, Eye, Order

  Dziga Vertov (1984). “Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov”, p.88, Univ of California Press

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• I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Writing, Lakes

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• There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play. Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

  Bryan Singer

  Play, Challenges, Special

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Thinking, Views

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• I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

  Anton Chekhov

  Theatre, Stage, Swear

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.250, e-artnow

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• Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Childhood, Needs

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• Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

  Eric Gill

  Writing, Character, Men

  Eric Gill, Christopher Skelton (1993). “An Essay on Typography”, p.121, David R. Godine Publisher

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• To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Deceived

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Nuclear, Weapons, Creation

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• The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

  Bill Maher

  Reality, Differences, People

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• One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Flannels, Cherish

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.142, e-artnow

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• The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to perfect our union at home while standing as a beacon of hope to the world. Today, that principle is embodied in agreements Americans helped forge - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and treaties against torture and genocide - and it unites us with people from every country and culture.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Home, Rights

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• Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, War, Geneva

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• Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South Carolina has probably decided favourably before this time. The plot thickens fast. A few short weeks will determine the political fate of America for the present generation, and probably produce no small influence on the happiness of society through a long succession of ages to come.

  George Washington

  Monday, Fate, America

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• I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

  Thurgood Marshall

  Believe, Government, Philadelphia

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• The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Political, Paper

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.243, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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