#shown

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#catharsis #expressed #grassroots #history #how

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#dealing #easily #give #going #interests

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#literature #living #our #our time #problems

Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#people #shown #studies #than #tv

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#how #language #light #nature #our

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#human #human nature #nature #objects #other

I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care. ↗

— Russ Feingold

#anyone #attorney #attorney general #care #floor

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey; that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#case #commerce #countries #does #germany

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#everything #having #know #me #perhaps