Demand Quotes

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else. (David Brin)
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. View quote
Josh Billings
High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes. View quote
George Eliot
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. View quote
George Boole
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. View quote
George Orwell
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization. (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. View quote
Adam Smith
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. View quote
John Mott
We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. View quote
Bill Clinton
In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand. (Thomas Malthus)
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. View quote
Willa Cather