Demand Quotes - Page 22

• Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving Up, Men, Giving

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The drug problem is in the United States, not in Mexico. It's a demand problem and that is to be dealt with here, and it is not being dealt with. It's been shown over and over that prevention and treatment are far more cost effective than police action, out-of-country action, border control, and so on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Drug, Police

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• I don't have an agenda. I don't have things I want to get to or something. I have like a broad, slim grasp of certain periods and certain shows within that period, an awareness of them, but they demand re-listening. I have a flimsy grasp of all the eras and ideas within each period of what would be a good show to think of.

  Dick Latvala

  Thinking, Ideas, Listening

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change.

  Louise Hay

  Effort, Get Better, Needs

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

  Shakira

  Children, Reality, Government

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.

  David Eagleman

  Husband, Men, Faithful

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.108, Vintage

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• Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, Support, Greek

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are bringing demands for a war crimes trial for the crime of aggression. However, though the invasion of Iraq was plainly an act of aggression, it doesn't break any records.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Iraq, Invasion

  Source: progressive.org

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• You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say at the moment it stands for a complex mix of multiculturalism and financial power. Interestingly, that is a political mix of progressive and oppressive. What I'm arguing is simply that we should take responsibility for the effects of 'our place' around the world. To take responsibility for our embeddedness. If you don't want to, so be it. It does demand an imaginative engagement with our planetary interdependence and that can be quite challenging.

  Doreen Massey

  Responsibility, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up.

  Thomas Friedman

  Home, Mean, People

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

  Mike Pence

  Thinking, Government, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Interactivity is a big part of video games, which have been a big part of entertainment for 20 years. That's what we think of as a 'lean-forward' type of entertainment. It's much more intense. But TV is more of a 'lean-back' entertainment - so the big improvement there is on-demand, because it conforms to your schedule.

  Reed Hastings

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies to search for automation to reduce costs. On the other hand, those receiving higher wages will spend more (the marginal propensity to consume is close to 1 for low income earners) and this will increase demand for additional goods and services. Henry Ford had the clearest vision of why companies can actually benefit by paying higher wages.

  Philip Kotler

  Jobs, Loss, Hands

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There are three musts that hold us back: "I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy." And I sometimes think that as long as we keep the second must, which is socially learned, then some screwballs 100 years from now will manufacture atomic bombs in their bathtub and maybe annihilate the whole human race because they demand that the rest of the world must agree with their dogmas. When we don't agree, they may zap us.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Years, Race

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• I'm fortunate to be able to draw in different styles, but each style demands another approach from the previous.

  Ernie Colon

  Style, Able, Different

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why someone would write strictly realistic stories, given the almost limitless freedom fiction provides. I don't see the point of making believe if you're not going to actually make believe: hang your ass out in the wind, push at every boundary, make almost unreasonable demands on your reader's willingness to suspend disbelief. This is dangerous, and prone to failure, but that's part of what makes it fun.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Fun, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people would say that's impossible. And it may or may not be achieved, but I think that's less important than articulating what a just and fair world can be.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

  David Attenborough

  Differences, Energy, Waste

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.

  Lisa Birnbach

  Party, Lunch, Clothes

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• The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Strong, Men, Emotional

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Dry Up, Natural, Resources

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.

  Carole Katchen

  Smell, Survival, Age

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• We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.

  Filipp Golikov

  Military, Party, Past

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• The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness.

  African Spir

  Moral, Evolution, Improvement

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Together, World, Favors

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

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