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«Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.»
«Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands»
«No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
accents, angers, childishness, Delicious, delights, emanation, emanations, imperfections, necessities, pledges, stammer, stammering
«One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
America, creative, In America, necessities, solitude
«Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.»
«Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.»
«Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.»
«Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word ''chance'' have any meaning.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
command, necessities, no-goal, obey, objectives, one to, The Word, transgress, transgressing
«Our necessities are few but our wants are endless»
«I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
American Dream, argue, bring forward, confidently, distinctions, distributed, distributes, Distributing, equality, equality of opportunity, In Living Color, Italians, Italian A, Jews, Land of Opportunity, luxuries, necessities, Negroes, privilege, realization, separateness, skin color, The Italian, unfulfilled, widely, widely distributed
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