Assembly Quotes - Page 12

• This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.

  William O. Douglas

  Meaningful, Home, Thinking

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• A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Exercise, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.351, Coventry House Publishing

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• Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Leader, Important, Topics

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Men, Knack

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• Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

  John Berger

  Messages, Language, Advertising

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• The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…. Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused, and the food has become much more dangerous in ways that are deliberately hidden from us. This isn’t just about what we’re eating. It’s about what we’re allowed to say. What we’re allowed to know.

  Eric Schlosser

  Animal, Years, Lines

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• With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Practice, People, Community

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• Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which aim to associate together under a single agreement everyone who, in any way, lays claim to the name of Christian? In the negative! ... It is clear, therefore, why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics. There is one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ for those who are separated from Her.

  Pope Pius X

  Christian, Agreement, Names

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• There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Men, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.297

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• This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Flames, Lightning, Astonishment

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: The bee. Essays. An inquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductions”, p.131

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• The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Art, Eye

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• Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

  Bhartrhari

  Money, Virtue, Blades

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• In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.

  John Adams

  Struggle, Law, Influence

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.158, Hackett Publishing

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• Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Agency, Purpose, Given

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 7: "Majority Rules", 1960.

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• The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

  George Packer

  Age, Lines, Invisibility

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

  Felix Adler

  Together, Admitting, Topics

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• Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, People, Lines

  Studs Terkel (2007). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, The New Press

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• Perfection seems sterile;
  It is final, no mystery in it;
  It's a product of an assembly line.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Perfection, Finals, Lines

  "Imperfection". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Men, Tears

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.247, 德威國際文化

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• A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

  John Adams

  Exercise, Two, Essentials

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.87, Hackett Publishing

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• After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.

  Thomas McGuane

  Work, Years, Significant Things

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• It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

  David Hume

  Passion, School, Dancing

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'The Sceptic'

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• Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Ideas, President, Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.819, Best Books on

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• Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Turns, Instantaneous, Depends

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