Demand Quotes

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Struggle, Blow, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass, Milton Meltzer (1995). “Frederick Douglass, in his own words”, Harcourt Children's Books

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• There is a supply for every demand.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Desire

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.75, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

  Robert Collier

  High Heels, Desire, Heels

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Secret of the Ages: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Power, Tyrants

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Long, Literature, Goodness

  Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley (1948). “Parables for the theatre: The good woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian chalk circle”

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• People demand freedom only when they have no power.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• Great interests demand great safeguards.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Interest

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83

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• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.423, Princeton University Press

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• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Issues, People, Results

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• The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Political Will, Europe, Democracy

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• The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Sex, Violence, Trafficking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Queens, Sheila, Treated

  "The Diddly Awards: Honoring Our Do-Nothing Congress" by Jack Hitt, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2000.

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• The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational Love, Arrogant, Presumption

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Men, Economic Inequality

  Adam Smith (1814). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With notes, and an additional vol., by D. Buchanan”, p.80

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• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Reality, Blessing

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• We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

  Douglas Adams

  Humorous, Profound, Doubt

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.158, Del Rey

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• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

  Hannah Arendt

  Numbers, Knowing, Development

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• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Champion, Trying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.134, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Order, Voice, Powerful Women

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• Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

  Martha Quinn

  Giving, Partners, Willing

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• The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Home, Long, Ownership

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