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(C)(P)- NEVER LET A POLITICIAN GRANT YOU A FAVOR OR ELSE THEY WILL WANT TO OWN YOU FOREVER. STAND FIRM, IT WILL ALWAYS BE -WE AND DEM, BUT WE KNOW THIS:- SOMEONE WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR THE INNOCENT BLOOD SHED EVERYDAY.

– RAS CARDO REGGAERate it:

Batman I'm not going to kill you. I want you to do me a favor. I want you to tell all your friends about me. Nic What are you Batman I'm Batman

– BatmanRate it:

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

– DemosthenesRate it:

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

– Milton FriedmanRate it:

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

– Ronald ReaganRate it:

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

– George CarlinRate it:

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

– Milton FriedmanRate it:

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

– Frederick DouglassRate it:

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

– Charles Caleb ColtonRate it:

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

– H.L. MenckenRate it:

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

– Brendan GillRate it:

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

– Herbert Marshall McLuhanRate it:

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

– Frederick DouglasRate it:

Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

– Frederick DouglasRate it:

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

– Robert FrostRate it:

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

– Mark CaineRate it:

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

– Mark TwainRate it:

For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.

– Psalms 305 BibleRate it:

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

– George Dennison PrenticeRate it:

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

– Francis QuarlesRate it:

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

– Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324Rate it:

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

– Dag HammarskjöldRate it:

Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

– Noam ChomskyRate it:

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