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«The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.»
«We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Decision,
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, go to war, indiscriminate, innocents, In Our Time, media
«The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste»
«One realises after a while, that indiscriminate opposition with the opposite sex has its drawbacks.[Richards]»
«Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
administer, administering, administers, charity, improvement, indiscriminate, wisely
«The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| Keywords:
atomic, atomic bomb, indiscriminate, revolts, The atomic bomb
«Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Book of Job, book review, exceptionally, indiscriminate, inventing, irritating, praising, prolonged, reactions, reviewing, spontaneous, thankless, trash
«The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
dreaded, indiscriminate, populace, prostrate, prostrates, prostrating, tumultuous
«Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
at most, compose, familiarity, fits, frequent, indiscriminate, jokes, merry, play a joke on, respectable, romp, sink
«Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, at ease, governors, indiscriminate, petitioner, presently, redress, redressing, request, wrongs
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