Agency Quotes - Page 23

• The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Political, Inquiry, Limits

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by David Sidorsky. Chapter 1, 1792.

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• There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...

  Will Self

  Race, Class, Ideas

  "Will Self". Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

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• God is infinite; and the laws of nature, like nature itself, are finite. These methods of working, therefore, - which correspond to the physical element in us, - do not exhaust His agency. There is a boundless residue of disengaged energy beyond.

  James Martineau

  Nature, Law, Energy

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 431), 1895.

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• I didn't have an agent. I would just write down that I was with my brother's agency, and then the agency would get calls and say that they had no idea who I was.

  Blake Lively

  Brother, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, War, Government

  1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

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• It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.

  Robertson Davies

  Dog, Taken, Advertising

  "Mehitabel". 1959.

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• We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism, which, as the advertising agencies well know, depress sales and sour the feasts of consumption.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Depressing, Self, Viruses

  "Waiting For The Barbarians" by Lewis H. Lapham, (p. 197), 1997.

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• The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence agencies, these so-called "assets", the spies on the payroll of the CIA, and drug dealers. Don't let members of Congress and the media get away with this complacency and distortion!

  Jerry Brown

  War, Ties, Media

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• The CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is now at the disposal of these oligarchic corporate structures run by the 1%.

  Jerry Brown

  Running, Military, Purpose

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• Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

  Bill Moyers

  Mean, Revolutionary Ideas, Issues

  "The Power of Democracy". Speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation on February 07, 2007. "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers, p. 92, 2008.

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• While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems to depend far more fundamentally upon the moral and intellectual qualities of human beings-upon the spirit that animates mankind.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Expression, Civilization, Intellectual

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• Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

  Lionel Trilling

  Christian, Fashion, Mean

  "Matthew Arnold". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1949.

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• Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Fall, America

  "Op-Ed: Where's President Obama's Narrative?". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. August 8, 2011.

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• The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.

  Bel Kaufman

  Art, Children, Reading

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.

  Howard Zinn

  Rights, Government, Law

  "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

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• To be at one with God is to be at peace. The child simplicity is the greatest agency in bringing this full and complete realization, the child simplicity that recognizes its true relations with the Father's life. There are people I know who have come into such a conscious realization of their oneness with this Infinite Life, this Spirit of Infinite Peace, that their lives are fairly bubbling over with joy.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Children, Father, Oneness

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during these god-awful hours like three to six in the morning. It wasn't a very difficult job -- all I had to do was make a round every fifteen minutes -- but it turned out to be a great environment for writing. I was completely alone in a little outhouse with an electric heater and a little desk.

  Sam Shepard

  Morning, Jobs, Writing

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• Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.

  Karl Rove

  July, Wmd, Wife

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• However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Numbers

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.

  James Bovard

  Running, Mistake, Book

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• We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Believe, Past

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.

  James Inhofe

  Law, White, Alcohol

  Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.

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• It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Fall, Stones

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.62, eKitap Projesi

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• We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

  Alan Shepard

  Past, Rise Above, Adverse

  "The Flight of Memory - Mercury Reunion Honors Glenn's Voyage" by Elizabeth Kastor, The Washington Post, p. G1, February 21, 1987.

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