#prop

Man proposes, woman forecloses. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#proposes #woman

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#appropriate #because #conditions #diverse #happens

I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years. ↗

— Michael Arad

#choice #every #every step #fight #how

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#elite #itself #masses #mob #momentum

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ↗

— Aristotle

#democracy #men #property #rulers

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #language #making #means #must

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ↗

— Aristotle

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

#desire #equalize #getting #lower #more

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#get #leave #livelihoods #make #prices

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#does #flaw #line #look #louse