Spurs Quotes - Page 6

• Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

  Terry Eagleton

  Tasks, Socialism, Rational

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.

  David Hume

  Real, Passion, Government

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

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• Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Suffering, Vision

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

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• Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent.

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Evil, Giving

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• That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.

  Joseph Hall

  Horse, Fall, Oxen

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• To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Ambition, Sea, Suggestions

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• The love of fame usually spurs on the mind.
  [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

  Ovid

  Mind, Fame

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• Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

  Joseph Joubert

  Morality, Curb, Knows

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• Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sex, Real, School

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

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• When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Emulation

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• Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Love, Powerful, Memories

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• Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
  [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

  George Herbert

  Lying, Reason

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• A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blessing, Unions, Degrees

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789”, p.257

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• I don't want to quit. I've always said that Clint Eastwood is one of my best friends. I've known Clint for many years and we have almost a jokey relationship about retirement. I always say: "OK Clint, are you ready to retire this year?" And he always says: "No, are you?" So, I'm waiting for the phone call where Clint says he's hanging up his spurs. That's never going to happen. If it doesn't happen for Clint, it won't happen for me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Retirement, Phones, Years

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

  Jean Paul

  Wings, Joy, Sorrow

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• Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

  Shakira

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• It usually happens spur of the moment, like when I broke up My Chemical Romance, it was just that day that I decided it was time for them to be done. And people were very upset about it so I have to choose my next victims carefully.

  Mark Hoppus

  People, Romance, Upset

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'california'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

  Hyman Rickover

  May, Practicals, Practical Experience

  Address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.

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• The tiniest criticism or put-down soaks into me and lies in my heart like a stone. Sometimes that spurs me on to work harder, but sometimes it just fills me up with sadness.

  Cathy Cassidy

  Lying, Hard Work, Heart

  Cathy Cassidy (2012). “Chocolate Box Girls: Summer's Dream”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

  John C. Maxwell

  Encouragement, Keys, Knowing

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• en you show up to work and put on your undergarments, throw on your suspenders and your cowboy boots, throw some dirt on you, and then get on your spurs, you start to walk a bit different. When you put on your gun belts, you change again. You go through this whole transformation process. All that stuff changes you. Riding a horse changes the way you walk and your demeanor.

  James Badge Dale

  Horse, Gun, Cowboy

  Source: collider.com

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• If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

  Eric Balfour

  Done, Like You, Best Things

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.

  Vinton Cerf

  Believe, Way, Climate

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• These new investments in cyber security and the modernization of our military will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. It's what we have to do. America must be the world's dominant technological powerhouse of the twenty-first century, and young Americans - including in our inner cities - should get these new jobs!

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Military, Technology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Years, Paradise

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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