Daniel N. Robinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
-- Daniel N. Robinson

#Mean #Simple #Doe
Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.
-- Daniel N. Robinson

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Question Your Paradigms, your perceptions of reality.
-- Daniel N. Robinson

#Reality #Perception #Paradigm

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a billion people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

Daniel N. Robinson famous quotes

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