Demand Quotes - page 2

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. View quote
Douglas Adams
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. View quote
Confucius
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. View quote
James Joyce
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. View quote
Emma Goldman
Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order. View quote
Cary Grant
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it. (Melina Marchetta)
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair. View quote
James Hillman
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. View quote
Leon Panetta
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. View quote
Carrie Chapman Catt
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. View quote
Stanley Tucci
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. View quote
Trevor Dunn
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old. (Douglas MacArthur)
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens. View quote
Menachem Begin
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. View quote
Ayn Rand
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. View quote
Ayn Rand