#stand

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time. ↗

— Colin Hay

#about #always #anymore #because #consciously

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#intellects #outstripped #their #understanding #whose

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#complete #dependence #fact #freedom #generation

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#conformity #consequences #credit #false #gain

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#get #great #i #i think #important

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#american #american dream #american people #because #better

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#because #everyone #felt #i #just

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#death #elements #envy #every #hunger