Deserve Quotes - Page 31

• Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blood, Punishment, Islands

  Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor (1999). “Practical Philosophy”, p.474, Cambridge University Press

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• The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT?  Isn’t that the way any master plan should work?  Doesn’t the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Zion, Demand, Way

  Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.71, Feral House

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• Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it.

  David Sedaris

  Needs, Hammers, Might

  "Old Faithful" by David Sedaris, www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

  Marie Curie

  Real, Believe, Sacrifice

  Marie Curie's letter to Eve Curie Labouisse (July 1929), as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 341), 1937.

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• Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul's needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Vanity, People, Soul

  Lewis B. Smedes (1978). “Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World”, p.35, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Blessing, Opportunity

  "Hillary Clinton Sits Down With Bill O'Reilly". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2008.

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• I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.

  Katy Perry

  Men, Musician, Alive

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My attitude is that when we put a youngster in harm's way, somebody who wears our nation's uniform in harm's way, he or she deserves the absolute best.

  George W. Bush

  Attitude, Uniforms, Way

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dream, Believe, Kids

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.

  John Wooden

  Giving, Path, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I’ve watched him grow. He deserves it all.

  Samuel Eto'o

  Boys, Player, Messi

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• I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, People, Injustice

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• Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.

  Jaron Lanier

  Real, Ambition, Thinking

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.28, Vintage

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• Sabi nila, 'When you know what you deserve, you don't look back.'

  Nikki Gil

  Deserve You, What You Deserve, Looks

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• If no one else has ever told you this before, I will tell it to you one more time and hope you believe it and never forget it for the rest of your life: You deserve to be treated well.

  Andrew W.K.

  Believe, Rest Of Your Life, Never Forget

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

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• If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

  Leanda de Lisle

  Punishment, Faults, Youth

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• Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

  Edward Coke

  Men, Made, Libel

  77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.

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• If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.

  Hugh Hefner

  Long, Promise, Generations

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• If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

  Aristophanes

  Cat, Men, Tails

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• The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opportunity, America, Innovation

  "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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• Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

  John Calvin

  Rotten, Misery, Pity

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• Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.

  John Calvin

  Hate, Blessing, Effort

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.72, Baker Books

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• Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel--and certainly our anger is no exception.

  Harriet Lerner

  Meaningful, Anger, Glasses

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 23, 2015

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Apology

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

  Greg Bear

  Leader, Action, Responsible

  Greg Bear (2014). “The Venging: Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media

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