Demand Quotes - Page 11

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

Politically, sometimes you get situations where rent control will go through. It is especially true in an emergency, where there is a sudden, sharp increase in demand for housing or a cut back in supply. People will simply not allow the marketplace to allocate housing resources and so you get pressures for rent control. Once you have it, it is hard to eliminate.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence

The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT? Isn’t that the way any master plan should work? Doesn’t the public deserve - nay, demand - such despotism?

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass.

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

Great praxis demands great piety.

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?