Role Quotes - page 8

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress. (J. William Fulbright)
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all. View quote
John Wooden
I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman. View quote
John D. MacDonald
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. View quote
Oswald Spengler
The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. View quote
Tupac Shakur
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself ... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces. View quote
Michael Parenti
Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America - that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved. View quote
Redd Foxx
Criticism will need an injection of humility - that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a temporary capacity. Since the critic exists only for introducing and explaining, he must be readily intelligible; he has no special vocabulary: criticism is in no way a science or a system. View quote
Jacques Barzun
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions. (Carroll Quigley)
...the nineteenth century Age of Expansion... brought on an acceleration of the main focus of the activities of society... from the areas of internal controls to the areas of external controls. ...the increasing role of propaganda... helped create an impression of stability. View quote
Carroll Quigley
In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role. View quote
Barack Obama
Our losses...have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses. View quote
Karl Dönitz
The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe. View quote
Leonid Brezhnev
The pathfinders of modern thought did not derive what is good from the law. ... Their role in history was not that of adapting their words and actions to the text of old documents or generally accepted doctrines: they themselves created the documents and brought about the acceptance of their doctrines. View quote
Max Horkheimer
Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme because some past successes have led to institutional measures (education; role of experts; role of power groups such as the AMA) that prevent a comeback of the rivals. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role. View quote
Hugo Chávez
The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen. (Pierre Trudeau)
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. View quote
Larry Wall
For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role. View quote
Seth Lloyd
Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right? View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit. View quote
Paul Goodman