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Wendell Phillips Quotes

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Wendell Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 29, 1811 - February 2, 1884

Topics

Men Government Law You Places Talk

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

Connected Nothing Artists Actions

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

Medicine Little Merit Taken Both

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

Life Home Man People Transportation

I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Me American Ignore Media Living

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Fear Myself Moment I Am Control You

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

People Momentum Happen Out Get Few

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Louis D. Brandeis

Good Justice Democracy American Own

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

Right Left Concepts English Alphabet

If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?

Johnny Van Zant

Good People Want Hunting Mean Own

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

Sad Childhood Lonely Golden Sort

One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about.

Family Community Me Worth Humanity

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

People College Never Always Who Did

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