Demonstration Quotes

• True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Heart

  79 Copy quote

• Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Smile, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Facts, Appearance

  Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teaching, Encounters

  "Enlightened Business: Leadership for Sustainable Success". Book by Joolz Lewis, 2014.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely "acting silly" or "behaving like an ass.

  Woody Allen

  Silly, Home, Keys

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

  Arthur Scargill

  Direct Action, People, Important

  51 Copy quote

• Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

  William Golding

  Exercise, Simple, Long

  178 Copy quote

• Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

  Jean Chretien

  Democracy, Reform, Would Be

  "My Years As Prime Minister". Book by Jean Chrétien, 2007.

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Discipline, Tolerance, Toil

  54 Copy quote

• It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

  Moshe Dayan

  Government, Israel, Weakness

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Peace, Able

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Our World, Racism

  398 Copy quote

• Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  People, Cooking, Done

  11 Copy quote

• I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  Steig Larsson

  Margins, Propositions, Marvellous

  8 Copy quote

• Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Children, Long, Support

  52 Copy quote

• For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

  John Shadegg

  Energy, Example, Algae

  92 Copy quote

• I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.

  Todd Rundgren

  Believe, Reality, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

  Elia Kazan

  Successful, Gossip, Made

  8 Copy quote

• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Eye, Thinking, World

  33 Copy quote

• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

  34 Copy quote

• It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Diversity, Important, Republic

  7 Copy quote

• May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

  William Kunstler

  Memorable, Squares, Years

  "The emerging police state: resisting illegitimate authority". Book by William Moses Kunstler, p. 96, 2004.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

  Lester Bangs

  Travel, Mean, Journey

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Thinking, Scripture

  "Pale Blue Dot". Book by Carl Sagan (p. 43), 1994.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

  Cheech Marin

  Cards, Movement, Resistance

  "Back with a bong" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source