Beaten Quotes - Page 22

• There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Voice, Unity

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• One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

  Diogenes

  Children, Drinking, Hands

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hero, Guy, Environment

  "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, "Eye Appeal", p. 79-80, 1951.

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• I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Helping Others, Opportunity

  Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

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• Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain.

  Walter Scott

  Flower, Pride, Dark

  Walter Scott (1821). “The Poetical Works: Lady of the lake”, p.13

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• I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend — perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Wise, Home

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 149

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• I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Loss, Unnecessary, Enough

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1995.

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• Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.

  David Hume

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book”, p.248, VM eBooks

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• My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'

  Miley Cyrus

  Self, Years, Would Be

  "Miley Cyrus: The Billboard Cover Story" by Ann Donahue, www.billboard.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

  Robbie Amell

  Meals, Dollars, Subway

  "The Flash Actor Robbie Amell: The Importance of Persistence and Support". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Children

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• Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Police, Soldier, Prison

  Source: kalamu.com

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• I met Muslim immigrants in Brooklyn who were swept up in 9-11 raids, held in abusive conditions, beaten, denied rights. That's how things started in Germany. Guantanamo was modeled after what Stalin developed for the Gulag.

  Naomi Wolf

  Rights, Germany, Brooklyn

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.

  Thomas Pogge

  Thinking, Should Have, Progress

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.

  Mark Helprin

  People, Unions, Want

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

  Sara Paretsky

  Littles, Able, Showing Up

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Epidemics, Connections

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  Edna Buchanan

  Sex, Jail, People

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Hope, World, Tempest

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• I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Broken, Unemployment, Noses

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• You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Strong, Heaven, Gold

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.364

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• All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you emerge, your friends, embracing you, will exclaim: 'Your eyes! Your eyes have changed!' And not one of your tormentors will be able to bear your scrutiny. They will turn away from it, like beaten dogs.

  Irina Ratushinskaya

  Dog, Eye, Years

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• I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

  Anne Ellis

  Men, Known

  Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.154, U of Nebraska Press

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• The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.

  Dorianne Laux

  Dad, Kids, Writing

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. April 2, 2013.

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• At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Hurt, Hate, Fighting

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