Lee J. Cobb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  • The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

  • If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

  • A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

  • Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

  • The Internet changes the structure of society all the time—this massiveness made of individuals.

  • It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

  • Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!

  • Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  • Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.