Expendables Quotes

• We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Kings, Thinking, Life Going On

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• Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Moments, Status Quo

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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• Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

  Alice Walker

  Billions, Humans

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Quality, Use, Initials

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• I'm no different than any other expendable player.

  Mo Williams

  Funny, Player, Nba

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• It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

  Rachel Zoe

  Fashion, Quality, Junk

  Rachel Zoe, Rose Apodaca (2008). “Style A to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty, & Everything Glamour”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

  Phil McGraw

  Money, Trying, Debt

  "Dr. Phil & Robin's Do-It-Yourself Marriage Makeover". Interview with Kate Coyne, www.goodhousekeeping.com. December 20, 2007.

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• We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.

  John Pilger

  Peace, Memories, Struggle

  Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech in University of Sydney, November 4, 2009.

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• Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.

  Veronica Roth

  Innovation, Doe, Protection

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• I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Believe, Becoming, Danger

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• We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

  Paul Monette

  Strong, Grief, Mean

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• From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

  Jimmy Reid

  Men, Challenges, Depth

  "Still irresistible, a working-class hero's finest speech". Jimmy Reid's speech on his inauguration as rector of Glasgow University, www.independent.co.uk. 1972.

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• Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.

  Ani DiFranco

  Sleep, America, People

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• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Pieces, Earth

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• I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

  Harry S. Truman

  Soldier, Politics, Politician

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.317, New Word City

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• All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Art, Philosophy, Past

  "The Sleepwalkeers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Men, Long

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, America, Squares

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• Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Strong, Jobs, New York

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• To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

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• Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Education, World, Technological

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• Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

  Wole Soyinka

  Religious, Lines, Today

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?

  Octavia St. Laurent

  Gay, Men, Animal

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• The military is such a hierarchical institution. It's an institution where, if you are assaulted by a person senior to you, you're probably the person that's expendable and that's going to get in trouble.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Senior, Military, Trouble

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