Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ricardo

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.

David Henry Hwang

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

David Duke

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

David Duke

And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel.

Barney Frank

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

Atifete Jahjaga

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

David Price

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Frederic Bastiat

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

Al Gore

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Rob Varley

We're going after the incentives market, and we're going to be going after the smaller, upscale groups business.

Rory Bremner

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

Alexandra Robbins

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

Janette Turner Hospital

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

John Fernandez

We have so many (hate) groups throughout the country, ... One only needs to surf the Internet to learn about most of them.

Bulat Abilov

We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another.

Brian May

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

Louis C. K.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

David Hillery

There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

Marisa Williams

It's a terrible place. Women are mistreated there. Minorities are mistreated there.

Tom Daschle

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.

Matthew Vaughn

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

Matt Taibbi

Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.