Allard K. Lowenstein famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
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You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.
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If there's no connection between the tactic and the result you're trying to achieve, and if in the process you can damage other people who are in fact innocent in the whole situation, I think you ought to re-examine whether what you're doing makes sense.
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There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face the realities of the situation, and decide whether what you're doing will help or hurt the goal you set.
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Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.
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I think constitutional and lawful protest has a very real value.
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When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.
-- Allard K. Lowenstein
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The things that make me different are the things that make me.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
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I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
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