otis Quotes and Quotations
Quote Authors: otis
These are all authors with the name otis.
- Otis Blackwell
- Otis Criblecoblis
- Carre Otis
- James Otis
- Otis Rush
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Otis Williams
- Panayiotis Zavos
otis Quotes and Quotations
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce | top
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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. Kjell Magne Bondevik | top
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. Christian Nestell Bovee | top
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore. Jack Bowman | top
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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. Joseph Brodsky | top
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. William Wells Brown | top
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I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there. Jon Favreau | top
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While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. Roland Gift | top
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I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken. Eric Heiden | top
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! O. Henry | top
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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. Eric Hobsbawm | top
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. Thomas Jefferson | top
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Thomas Jefferson | top
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy | top
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. Daniel De Leon | top
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. Malcolm X | top
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It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. Ho Chi Minh | top
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan | top
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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. Richard M. Nixon | top
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Thomas Paine | top
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Democracy passes into despotism. Plato | top
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Leo Tolstoy | top
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I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. Jesse Ventura | top
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised. Robert Walpole | top
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. Malcom X | top
