#advocate

If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#advocate #analyze #being #bias #easier

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning. ↗

— Melanie Joy

#animal-advocates #animals #apathy #defensiveness #social-condition

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept. ↗

— Pat Boone

#comedies #concept #dramatic #fact #humanistic

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. ↗

— John Burns

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Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate. ↗

— David Chalmers

#associations #boil #build #core #down

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#am #audience #big #front #getting

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#guitars #i #i think #music #strong