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Letter "R" » rallies
«In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
governments, invent, mobilize, mobilized, mobilizes, mobilizing, rallies, rally, rallying, U.S. government
«Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
borne, constitution, Exigencies, exigency, flag, Let It Be, One Country, rallies, rally, rallying
«The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| Keywords:
blindly, demanded, disasters, exorbitant, fervor, furnishing, furnishings, gobble, Gobbles, in charge, patriotic, rallies, rally, rallying, sums
«Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
acceptance, all knowing, apply, Bad Thing, distraction, distractions, exalted, exalting, exalts, fills, fruit, fullness, glory, misuse, physical thing, physical world, rallies, rally, rallying, seeing, sensation, sensual, spots, squander, squandered, squandering, squanders, stimulant, stimulants, tired, unending
«We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.»
«Our object in framing the Constitution is rally two-fold: (1) To lay down the form of political democracy, and (2) To lay down that our ideal is economic democracy and also to prescribe that every Government whatever is in power shall strive to bring about economic democracy. The directive principles have a great value, for they lay down that our ideal is economic democracy.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
directive, directives, economic power, fold, framing, prescribe, rallies, rally, rallying
«The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread / in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
dawns, Iron Hand, Old English, rallies, rally, rallying, The Coming, Tories, Tory
«The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.»
«Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance»
«When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Scientists
| Keywords:
denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, distinguished, elderly, fervor, rallies, rally, rallying, scientists, supports
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