Robert Lowie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by a racial constant. We can often explain them-in terms of contact with other peoples, of individual genius, of geography-but not by racial differences.
-- Robert Lowie

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Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Robert Lowie famous quotes

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