Behalf Quotes

• We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Blow, Men, Diversity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.50, Jerome K. Jerome

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• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

  John Eldredge

  Men, People, Risk

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• While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Running, Dedication, Cities

  "Rahm Emanuel may leave Obama administration to run for mayor of Chicago" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2010.

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• Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

  William Cobbett

  Sex, Sisterhood, Law

  William Cobbett (1831). “Advice to Young Men, and (incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Citizen Or a Subject”, p.145

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• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

  Evita Peron

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

  Clara Zetkin

  Men, Voice, Silent

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• All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

  Ernestine Rose

  Humble, Rights, Voice

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• Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

  Frank R. Wolf

  Speaks Out, Scripture, Obligation

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Speak, Mandates, Nations

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• If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

  Charles Kennedy

  Vote, Describe Me, Ifs

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• I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

  Annie Lennox

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  "The world has become more sexualised" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2012.

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• The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Leadership, Art, Business

  "Men Against Fire : The Problem of Battle Command in Future War". Book by S.L.A. Marshall, p. 160, 1954.

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• The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

  Thomas Malory

  Fighting, Knights, Purpose

  Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

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• Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

  Mary J. Blige

  Thank You, Mean, Feet

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• We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

  A. B. Simpson

  Prayer, Praying, Christ

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• After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Evil, Nostalgia, Exhausted

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• People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

  George Eliot

  People, Bravery, Might

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

  Jim Garrison

  Thinking, Agency, Long

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• If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, Want, Mail

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• I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Campaigns, Doing Me

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• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  Zach Wamp

  Courage, Grateful, Sacrifice

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• The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered

  Jenny Shipley

  Community, Able, Today

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• Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

  Bernadette Peters

  Healing, Animal, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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