demand quotes

• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object. (Hannah Arendt) [demand/more/more/development]
• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. (Red Auerbach) [demand/explanation]
• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. (Jean Baudrillard) [demand/revenge]
• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. (Bertolt Brecht) [demand]
• Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. (Willa Cather) [market/demand/business/art]
• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called? (Aleister Crowley) [mankind/autumn/demand/price]
• Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. (George Eliot) [demand/child/beliefs/life]
• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. (Emma Goldman) [demand/life/right/right]
• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [spirit/talent/demand/stupidity]
• One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [demand/society/behavior/thinker]
• To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [applause/demand/spirit]
• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses. (Karl Liebknecht) [willpower/willpower/demand]
• It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. (Henry Miller) [letter/demand/letter/speak]
• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. (John Ruskin) [perfect/demand/perfection/]
• If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. (Bertrand Russell) [happiness/demand/life/more]
• The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now. (Lech Walesa) [words/market/demand/follow]
• The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula. (Bela Lugosi) [role/demand/vampire]
• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. (Stanley Tucci) [demand/absurd/reality]
• I demand minimal for paid rehearsal and not always six weeks either. (William Hurt) [demand]
• “A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.” (William Baldwin) [economy/demand/housing/demand]
• “Lower prices are likely to stimulate increased demand, but to what degree is unknown.” (Gary Cooper) [demand]
• “Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.” (Gary Sinise) [demand/career]
• You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect. (Mary Blige) [demand/respect/give/respect]
• One thing we said at the beginning of the season was to work for the guy next to you. We demand that of each other and don’t let each other down. (Ryan Miller) [thing/demand]
• As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. (Julian Bond) [more/demand/people/education]
• Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. (Marian Wright Edelman) [countries/child/demand]
• It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working. (Rosa Parks) [demand/demand/day]

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