Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 1, 1872 - December 17, 1964

Topics

FreedomWiseSafetyPoliticalAlways

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Joel Osteen

FaithPeopleThinkEasyI Think

This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

Robert Pattinson

RelationshipMyselfPeopleWeirdYou

I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'

John Niven

LifeWorkDayComputersMy Life

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Robert Kennedy

ChildrenDeathViolenceLakeProduct

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

Tom Hanks

LearningSelfLearnYouPhysicsNow

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

Robin Gibb

MusicPersonThreeComfortableMore

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

Maryanne Wolf

BrainThinkLanguageBecomeBear

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.

Mary Balogh

MusicMyselfRomanticSweetLights

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

Juice Newton

MusicMeNewContinueFactThose

I put a lot of time into making sure my relationship with my family is well taken care of because I want to be as successful as a father as I am as an entertainer.

Dierks Bentley

FamilyFatherRelationshipTimeI Am

With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the crew laugh. With drama, you do something deep and if your stuff was really effective, the ultimate result is silence. Silence is not necessarily... that would also be the result if you sucked.

Chris Pratt

GoodSilencePeopleDeepLaughYou

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Clive Sinclair

WorkHopeWorldBlackPlaceDesire

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