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Political speech12 quotes
Read my lips: no new taxes. — George H.W. Bush · 1988Clearly, mistakes were made. — George H.W. Bush · 1986A line has been drawn in the sand. — George H.W. Bush · 1990I have spoken of a Thousand Points of Light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led. — George H.W. Bush · 1989The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War. — George H.W. Bush · 1992We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. — George H.W. Bush · 1988All 12 quotes →Sociology7 quotes
The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them. — William Graham Sumner · 1906A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups. — William Graham Sumner · 1906It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed. — William Graham Sumner · 1881The mores come down to us from the past. Each individual is born into them as he is born into the atmosphere, and he does not reflect on them, or criticise them any more than a baby analyzes the atmosphere before he begins to breathe it. — William Graham Sumner · 1906If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror. — William Graham Sumner · 1906All 7 quotes →Religious literature5 quotes
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. — Jonathan Edwards · 1741A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of heaven and earth? — Jonathan Edwards · 1734All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. — Julian of Norwich · 1395The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God. — Jonathan Edwards · 1736You will be damned if you do-And you will be damned if you don't. — Lorenzo Dow · 1833Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be. — Grandma Moses · 1951Economic literature1 quote
The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1898Historical literature1 quote
Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror. — William Graham Sumner · 1906Legal writing1 quote
That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her... As healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical wellbeing of woman becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race. — David J. Brewer · 1908Psychological literature1 quote
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. — Benjamin Spock · 1946