#precise

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#generated #incapable #into #irresponsible #judging

Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#best #billion #boards #buck #companies

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#fixed #i #maintained #means #now

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#life #marriage #meant #more #perhaps

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#his #law #man #order #paycheck

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#denied #most #precisely #prison #prisoner

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#happens #happier #know #lost #matter

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#i think #polanski #precise #still #think

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#conditions #conflict #contrary #define #did

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#ceased #christians #did #find #history