Strongest Quotes - Page 4

• Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Men, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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• It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, School, Law

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Safe Haven, Working Together

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our adversaries who have practised upon it with no small benefit to their cause. For at the very moment they are eulogizing the reason of men & professing to appeal only to that faculty, they are courting the strongest & most active passion of the human heart - VANITY!

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Heart, Animal

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H.G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.541

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• For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1899). “Child Culture, Or, The Science of Motherhood”

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• I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the strongest electoral arm of that movement is the Green Party. I try to stress to people cynical about voting that the Greens are the most effective electoral arm of the so-called Spirit of Seattle, and it's great fun to cause trouble in the streets, but that's not going to accomplish much without insurrection in the voting booth at the same time.

  Jello Biafra

  Fun, Stress, Party

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Christmas, Struggle, Caring

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. And things might not always work out like you think they should. But they always work out. I'm thankful that the world's in perfect harmony at all times. Pilgrims had it tough. But now, we live in the strongest, most prosperous country in the world. And the Indians, well, you know.

  Christopher Titus

  Country, Holiday, Thinking

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Opportunity, Democracy

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• Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Democracy, Weapons

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Intelligent, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.92, Friederich Nietzsche

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• I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Pain, Women, Thinking

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• The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Learning, Parent

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• Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Men, Injury

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• The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Passion

  "The Cost of America's Secret Wars, Then and Now" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

  David Hume

  Wise, Opposites, Miracle

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.42, Stanford University Press

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• The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sympathy, Moments, Fatigue

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Men, Symptoms

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• War rages on the teeming earth;
  The hot and sanguinary fight
  Begins with each new creature's birth:
  A dreadful war where might is right;
  Where still the strongest slay and win,
  Where weakness is the only sin.

  Mathilde Blind

  War, Fighting, Winning

  Mathilde Blind (2012). “The Ascent of Man”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

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• It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Intelligent, Past, Years

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• I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.

  Natalie Massenet

  Believe, Media, Editors

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• Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

  Robert South

  Heart, Flames, Ungrateful

  Robert South (1827). “Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character”, p.433

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• Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.

  Jeremy Collier

  Passion, Hands, Body

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