Would Be Quotes - Page 198

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.

What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

Whether someone else would have played Superman better or worse would be up for a lot of debate on the internet forums, I'm sure.