#prim

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#democracy #experience #fear #having #lived

If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#continues #each #effort #end #independent

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#down #enough #find #minister #prime

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#finishes #out #paradox #place #prime

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary. ↗

— Mark Shields

#john #john mccain #mccain #primary #south

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#autonomy #beyond #culture #environmental #function

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#god #him #holy #others #our

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#animal #form #indeed #life #material

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. ↗

— Peter Singer

#contexts #different #everyone #i #i think

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. ↗

— Kate Smith

#before #bless #committee #democratic #during