W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963

Topics

LifeGoodBestMenEffortCommunism

While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.

Joanna Krupa

TimeMyselfNeverMeansLearnedHad

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

John Berger

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The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Melanie Lynskey

InterestingYouActingKindPersonal

You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on.

John Mayall

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As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.

Ron Jaworski

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Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.

Martin Seligman

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If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find food and shelter, they are under the poverty level, this is a dangerous spot for the whole world, because those people will move, and they will move to different places. They will be carrying bad feelings towards others.

Mohammed Morsi

FoodPeopleWorldFreePovertyYou

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

Don Tapscott

KnowledgeIntelligencePeopleUs

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

RelationshipLightPeopleLearnMore

The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003.

Peter Bergen

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What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it's day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it's, 'Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?'

Tyra Banks

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I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Marissa Mayer

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