Stakes Quotes - Page 25

• The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, People, Democracy

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• The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.

  Nigel Lawson

  Home, Successful, People

  "The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical". Book by Nigel Lawson, 1992.

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong - they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mistake, Leader, Gone

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 82-83), 1964.

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• Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

  George Mason

  Competition, Liberty, Littles

  Letter to George Washington, April 5, 1769.

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• I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.

  Vaclav Havel

  Believe, Character, Rights

  "Le Monde" Newspaper, April 29, 1999.

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• Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.

  Werner Heisenberg

  1969 Der Teil und das Ganze, translated by A J Pomerans as Physics and Beyond (1971).

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• I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

  Henry Vaughan

  Fire, Soul, Common

  1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Garland'.

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• If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.

  Kirk Cameron

  Love You, Kids, Son

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• Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Safety, Community

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.194

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• If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

  George Ade

  Fire, Woods, Burned

  George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Age, Century

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Catholic, Culture, Election

  "The Religious Issue: Hot and Getting Hotter". Newsweek, September 19, 1960.

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• Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Lying, Men, Voice

  "Valedictory". The last issue of "The Liberator" newspaper, fair-use.org. January 01, 1866.

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• What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.

  Thomas Frank

  Party, Issues, Identity

  "Health Care and the Democratic Soul" by Thomas Frank, www.wsj.com. August 25, 2009.

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• I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.

  Kevin Rudd

  Voice, Australia, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Democracy, Election, Dictatorship

  "Another angry neighbour for Bush" by Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2006.

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• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Ideas, People, Literature

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jun 22, 2011

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• I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

  John Mayer

  Writing, Emotional, Needs

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• It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, Worry, World

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• The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

  Christopher Meloni

  Hate, Night, Play

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• And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and I went still. Uh-oh, I thought. Total stomped up to me, his glare accusing. "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed. "Why don't you just chain me to a stake in the yard and throw me a bone!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Dog, Doors

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• Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

  Alanis Morissette

  Movie, People, Actors

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Opportunity, Fda

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• Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself." He offered me his arm, which I latched onto gratefully. "He wouldn't stake you out," I panted as we forced our way through the hard top layer of snow that was almost thigh deep. "He'd just shoot you." "Well that's a comfort.

  P. C. Cast

  Hurt, Dad, Fall

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