Alan Cranston Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.

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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

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I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

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To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

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I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

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Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

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To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.

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That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

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We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

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People are innocent till proven otherwise. All people are.

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If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

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Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

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