Units Quotes - Page 3

• [T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Men, Voting, Principles

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• If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

  Nicolle Wallace

  Believe, Treasure, Want

  "Supreme Court tackles gay marriage, as advocates line up for historic argument". www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• My favorite records are by bands where the musicians are all playing like themselves, but those personalities connect in an exciting way and create music that is one cohesive unit. It's not catchy like a pop song, but it's a really cool song.

  Dylan Baldi

  Song, Personality, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As a physician, I see the earth as a patient in the intensive care unit. We have an acute clinical crisis on our hands and must take urgent action. My prescription for survival is that the American people rise up as they did in the 1980s, when 80 percent of Americans supported the nuclear weapons freeze.

  Helen Caldicott

  Hands, People, Survival

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• I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.

  Ivan Konev

  Jobs, Air, Order

  "Russia at War, 1941-1945" by Alexander Werth, (p. 779), 1964.

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• All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Community, Soul, Kind

  "Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. 183), 1941.

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• The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Ideas, Analysis

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• There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.

  Jean Monnet

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Speech to the French National Liberation Committee, August 5, 1943.

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• It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

  Barrett Tillman

  War, Boredom, Horror

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• Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Games

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• Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the highest life of society through the dignity of man and through the multiplicity of his action, in which multiplicity is life. Through well-divided property alone can the units of society react upon the State. Through it alone can a public opinion flourish. Only where the bulk of the cells are healthy can the whole organism thrive.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Eye, Men, Cells

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.26, IHS Press

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• The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Credit

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.97, TAN Books

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• The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Credit, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.34, IHS Press

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• The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Doe, Credit, Rivals

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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• It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Entrepreneur, Technique, Demand

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.193, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• ...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Moving, Pension Plans

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• Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.

  Rae Armantrout

  Mean, Want, Ifs

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• Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

  Toni Morrison

  Family, Children, Two

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Couple, Mistake

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• Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

  Agnes Repplier

  Pain, Fate, Men

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• Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Soul, Independence

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Distance, Player

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• Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Sports, Team, Army

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• the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still
  numbering the units in each group;
  the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise

  Marianne Moore

  Eye, Groups, Mouths

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.49, Macmillan

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• During the Suffragette revolt of 1913 I[urged] that what was needed was not the vote, but a constitutional amendment enactingthat all representative bodies shall consist of women and men in equal numbers, whether elected or nominated or coopted or registered or picked up in the street like a coroner's jury. In the case of elected bodies the only way of effecting this is by the Coupled Vote. The representative unit must not be a man or a woman but a man and a woman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Numbers, Body

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