#position

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#buried #ceremonies #civil #down #forms

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #enviable #enviable position #every #feel

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody. ↗

— Dennis Hopper

#come #country #disney #films #fine

In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#creating #democratic #democratic party #evaluate #expertise

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#consciousness #phenomenology #proposition #pure #put

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#creation #effectively #god #implicitly #involved

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#advanced age #age #even #fair #few

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration. ↗

— Tom Joyner

#earlier #even #integration #naacp #position

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#chechnya #civilized #conduct #decades #develop

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#better #help #hope #money #person