Suffrage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In order to reach universal suffrage we need to build trust.
-- Donald Tsang

#Order #Needs #Suffrage
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
-- James Martineau

#Selfishness #Suffrage #Meanness
I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.
-- Jeannette Rankin

#Peace #Years #Suffrage
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.
-- Louisa Lawson

#Women #World #Suffrage
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#Revolution #Suffrage
I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.
-- Susan B. Anthony

#Next #Woman Suffrage #Suffrage
I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.
-- Donald Tsang

#Order #Needs #Suffrage

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo â€“ even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.
I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.
The truth will come out in the end.
In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.
Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing
Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.
I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.