Demand Quotes - Page 2

• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

  George Orwell

  Anger, Practice, Society

  "The Art of Donald McGill". Critical essay by George Orwell, 1941.

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• I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either.

  William Hurt

  Rehearsal, Six, Week

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Art, Two, Different

  "Pavarotti: My World". Book by Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, 1995.

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• If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

  Bill Kovach

  World, Way, Journalism

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• It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

  Robert Walpole

  Patriot, Unreasonable, Insolent

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• When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

  David Brin

  People, Accountability, Literature

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• We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Gasoline, Gallons, Ifs

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• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, News, Toys

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Water, Doe

  Henry Miller (1952). “The books in my life”, p.216, Рипол Классик

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• Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

  Leonard Maltin

  Dvds, Games, Alternatives

  "In the Money" with Andy Serwer, Allen Wastler, Carrie Lee, edition.cnn.com. October 29, 2005.

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• Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

  Zebulon Pike

  Justice, Growth, Fine

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.145

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• When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

  Clara Zetkin

  Women, Battle, Principles

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• With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

  Lois Capps

  Country, Energy, World

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• Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

  Cary Grant

  Inspirational, Jobs, Order

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• Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

  Jim DeMint

  Government, Fuel, Want

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• I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Constant, Personal And Professional Life, Personal Life

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

  Gary Sinise

  Careers, Sometimes, Break

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• Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

  John McGraw

  Kindness, Men, Skins

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• People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

  Helen Garner

  People, Justice, Justice System

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• Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

  George Takei

  Stars, Wells, Whole

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• People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

  Max Eastman

  People, Diversity, Favors

  Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Development, Advertising, Mass

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