Internals Quotes

• To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iraq, People, Hussein

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• It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Would Be, Individual, Bottom

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Thinking, Only Child

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• Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Freedom, Hate

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

  James Madison

  Blessing, Liberty, Poison

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution".

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• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

  James Madison

  Nature, Patriotic, Angel

  1788 The Federalist, Jan.

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• Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

  Shirley Manson

  Feelings, Appearance, Integrating

  "New Again: Garbage". Interview with Paige Powell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2012.

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• We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

  Janet Napolitano

  Responsibility, Rights, People

  "Chorus of Protest Grows Over Report Warning of Right Wing Radicalization". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

  Government, Want, Meddling

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• Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

  Richard Perle

  Military, Police, Secret

  Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

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• Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

  Natan Sharansky

  Order, People, Enemy

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• Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

  Herbert Spencer

  Life, Reality, Relation

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.24, VM eBooks

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• I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

  Norman Spinrad

  Relationship, Technology, Political

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• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  W. Clement Stone

  Gratitude, Attitude, Freedom

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• For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Letters, Natural

  Emanuel Swedenborg (2013). “Heaven and Hell”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

  James Taylor

  Helping, Fronts

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

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• What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

  Pete Townshend

  Order, People, Theatre

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• The chief internal enemies of any state are not spies nor saboteurs nor the paid agents of foreign governments. They are, on the contrary, those myriads of public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Betrayal, People, Enemy

  "The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man".

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• External nature is only internal nature writ large.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Nature

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

  Sarah Zettel

  Science, Technology, Understanding

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• One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Speech

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• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  Vash Young

  Self, Goal, Achievement

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• Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Men, Logic, Language

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• Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Government, Self, Law

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