John Lindsay Quotes

• Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

  John Lindsay

  Peace, Freedom, War

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• Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Cities, Melting

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• The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to.

  John Lindsay

  Running, May, Faster

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• Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Creating, Space

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• We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.

  John Lindsay

  Country, Believe, Men

  The Washington Post, p. 3, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 3, 1970.

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• The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her
  banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural
  capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was
  in the days of Solomon.

  John Lindsay

  Children, Waiting, Soil

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• New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

  John Lindsay

  Travel, New York, Home

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• Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Favour

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• You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that I've filed. I just pour everything out of the boot. Otherwise you get a phone call at three in the morning asking why you left out that the candidate had his teeth drilled that morning.

  John Lindsay

  Morning, Thinking, Phones

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• I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

  John Lindsay

  Way, Fossils, Energy

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• New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

  John Lindsay

  New York, Balance, Movement

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• There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.

  John Lindsay

  Joy, Tunes, Alternatives

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• I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.

  John Lindsay

  Mistake, Years, Trying

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• I'm definitely more interested in technologies that are more accessible, that are as accessible as possible.

  John Lindsay

  Technology

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• Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Thinking, People

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