"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."

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"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."

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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

bell hooks, American Critic

Quality, Sleep, Trying

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

George Eliot, British Author

Quality, May, Order, Paradoxes

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Quality, Thoughts, Public, Will

"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Quality, Decision

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Quality, Tears, World

"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Quality, Charm

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Quality, Growth, Discontent, Fact

"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Greatness, Time, Value

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Quality, Excellence, Effort, Values, Achievement

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Quality, Tree Growth, Fruit Sweetness

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"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."

Right

"Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change."

Change

"Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to."

Concern

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."

War

"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."

Martin

"A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both."

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"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals."

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"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

Explore more quotes by Ramsey Clark

"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."

"Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change."

"Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to."

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."

"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."

"I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify."

"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"

"Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves."

"A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both."

"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals."