Eugene McCarthy Quotes

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 29, 1916 - December 10, 2005

Topics

FootballPoliticsSmartGameThink

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

John Edgar Wideman

ChangeHurtViolencePlaceRealMay

I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.

Angie Everhart

TimeMyselfMeHairColorThought

I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy.

Michael Cohen

BagStrategyWillDefensePart

Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

Tom Hodgkinson

LifeHealthSimpleLazinessNapWay

Watching boxer Dingko Singh's performance at the Asian Games, Bangkok, where he won gold, was the defining moment. I was 15 and enjoyed sports more than anything else. Singh's performance changed my life and inspired me to follow boxing.

Mary Kom

LifeSportsMomentMeGoldMy Life

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

PowerGovernmentPeopleControlFree

The idea of service leads to community.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

CommunityServiceIdeaLeads

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

Juergen Teller

BodyFindSeeQuiteHowWorks

If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

Jarvis Cocker

MusicMindYouWrongLivingOut

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

Jonathan Haidt

PowerStressEqualityThinkBlind

A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it's a formidable weapon of seduction.

Dree Hemingway

PersonalityWomanManMemorySaying

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

PatriotismSocietyEphemeralMotive

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