Claims Quotes - Page 34

• My fatherland has always the first claim on me.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Firsts, Fatherland

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Silver Platter, Small Numbers, Influence And Power

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Respect, Government, Law

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, People, Joy

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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• When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Military, Land

  "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

  Alva Myrdal

  Heart, Ambition, Men

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.

  James Luther Adams

  Together, Church, Covenant

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• I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Sex, Children, Hero

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• Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

  Dorothy West

  Skins, Ugly, Bones

  Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor

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• The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, Political, Good Poetry

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• Claim what is yours. You belong any where on this Earth you want to.

  Tina McElroy Ansa

  Earth, Want

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• Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

  William H. Prescott

  Men, Agency, Law

  William H. Prescott (2005). “The Conquests of Mexico And Peru”, p.819, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.

  Shepard Fairey

  Want, Pay, Damage

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• I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

  Andrew Weil

  Emotional, Thinking, Practice

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• The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.

  Andrew Weil

  Blood, Ideas, Balance

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• One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Civilization, Decay, Moments

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• What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Laughter, Sadness, Fighting

  "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.

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• Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Class, Feminist

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• We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Tolerance, Should

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge

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• All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Loud Voices, People

  Paul Tillich (1954). “Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.

  Thomas McGuane

  Spiritual, Distance, Views

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• As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Rights, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.196, Library of Alexandria

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• The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Pride

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• Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Rap, Exercise

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