Support Quotes

A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw)
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I've never heard an agency say: "Unless you industrialize I will not support you." View quote
Yoweri Museveni
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. View quote
Franz Kafka
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. View quote
Paul Samuelson
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals, is the means of his support, is the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. View quote
Thomas Malthus
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. View quote
Colin Powell
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. View quote
Margaret Mead
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. (Norman Mailer)
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. View quote
Andrew Lang
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. View quote
Lysander Spooner
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. View quote
Garrett Hardin
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son. (Farrah Fawcett)
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. View quote
Elihu Root
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. View quote
Jasmine Guy
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me. View quote
John Woolman
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. View quote
Flannery O’Connor