Unfortunate Quotes - Page 19

• Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Expression, Historical, Aberration

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• Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.

  Alcee Hastings

  Religious, People, May

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• Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Squares, Meals, Able

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• I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.

  Jesse McCartney

  School, Careers, People

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

  Hideki Tojo

  Attitude, Party, Japan

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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• It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Facts, Individual, Wells

  Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette, Christopher S. Hyatt (1992). “Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia: Sexual Evocation”, New Falcon Pubns

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• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Views, Rome, Intellectual Arrogance

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• I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

  William Styron

  Friends, Thinking, Critics

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Self Esteem, Standing, Pulling

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press

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• It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, World, Helping

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• No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

  Nathanael West

  Dream, Trouble, Disappear

  Nathanael West (1969). “Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

  Bill Bradley

  Thinking, Names, Political

  "Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

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• We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.

  Dave Barry

  Fashion, Revenge, Fall

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• I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

  Brian Molko

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Addiction

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• I do agree to a certain extent that it is unfortunate that I have to be a little more aware of being a kid and growing up and figuring out who I am, but at the same time, it's part of what I love.

  Selena Gomez

  Growing Up, Kids, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Selena Gomez on turning 21, Bieber, new album". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. July 26, 2013.

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• We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.

  Maya Tiwari

  Children, Yoga, Healing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Autumn, Thinking, Russia

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• The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Caring, Government, Citizens

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• As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discipline, Relax, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
  Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hard Times, Jewels, Lovers

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

  Herman Melville

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Political

  Herman Melville (2012). “The Encantadas and Other Stories”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Home, Adversity

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

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• Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Evil, Violence, Association

  B. N. Mullik, Jawaharlal Nehru (1972). “My Years with Nehru, 1948-1964”, Bombay : Allied Publishers

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• ... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Purpose

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.32, Macmillan

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• It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

  Abraham Maslow

  God, Stupidity, Dumb

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