Founders Quotes - Page 26

• A non-Muslim is a second-class citizen called a Kafir. You and I are Kafirs. Much of the Koran concerns itself with the Kafir - how to control us, to subjugate us and to kill us. “Islam has the mind of a psychopathic rapist and because its founder, the “prophet” Mohammed was in fact a psychopathic rapist himself.

  Eric Allen

  Class, Mind, Islam

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• The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Evil, Constitution

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• A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.

  Zadie Smith

  Good Friend, America, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Average, Soul, Together

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

  George Washington

  Religious, Men, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.372

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• The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Engineering, Perception

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.83, Metropolitan Books

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• Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.

  Bill Ayers

  Dream, Circles, House

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Apology, Sick

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• We honor founders of these starving cities,
  Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

  W. H. Auden

  Cities, Honor, Sorrow

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• Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

  James Altucher

  Successful, Google, Improvement

  "Step By Step Guide to Make $10 Million And Then Totally Blow It" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2017.

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• Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Keys, Goal

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• A spot whereon the founders lived and died
  Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees,
  Or gardens rich in memory glorified
  Marriages, alliances, and families,
  And every bride's ambition satisfied.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Ambition, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been unimaginable to the founders of the republic - even those who personally repudiated orthodox Christian faith.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Home

  Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

  Edmund Burke

  Trust, Power, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.496

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• All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Growing Up, Caring

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• As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?

  Ron Conway

  Team, Why Not, Start The Day

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• Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

  Ron Paul

  School, Government, Parent

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• Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

  Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18

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• You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted.

  Richard J. Maybury

  Freedom, Mistake, Rights

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• Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Art, Men, Civilization

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• Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

  Eric Ries

  Baby, Perseverance, Ebay

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• Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Christendom

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• We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, Successful, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush's Comments by Bush on the Air Strikes Against the Iraqis, www.nytimes.com. January 17, 1991.

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• Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility." The first and foremost level of responsibility is with the individual himself; the second level is the family; then the church; next the community, finally the county, and, in a disaster or emergency, the state. Under no circumstances is the federal government to become involved in public welfare. The Founders felt it would corrupt the government and also the poor. No Constitutional authority exists for the federal government to participate in charity or welfare.

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Responsibility, Government, Community

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing

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• I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work.

  Steve Ballmer

  Jobs, Condolences, Heart

  "Nationwide Outpouring of Remembrance for Apple's Steve Jobs", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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