#appeal

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appealing #beyond #desire #expectations #history

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#appeal #bootstraps #country #extraordinary #freedom-loving

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#being #between #culture #essentially #having

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #also #anger #appeal #being

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#being #being yourself #box #i #original

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful. ↗

— Walter Lang

#human #itself #may #our #pride

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#belief #better #better future #blessed #death

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody. ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#everybody #most #mystery #something

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire