Demanded Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom, Oppressor, Oppressed

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon

Peace, Another, Everyone

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe

Freedom, Stars, Few

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

Work, Happiness, Best

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Law, Asked, Favor

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Truth, Last

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Him, Himself, Achieve

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
Rose Kennedy

Love, Work, Best

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Time, May

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. Lovecraft

Work, Fear, Real

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.
Hedy Lamarr

Love, Health, Money

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
Hugh Mackay

Someone, Person, Perfect

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
Evita Peron

Women, Put, Rights

Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
Ann Coulter

Him, Last, Leave

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.
Thomas Frank

Hero, After, Making

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mean, Doubt, Two

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
Eliot Spitzer

Change, Done, Understand

You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
Barbara Corcoran

Money, Home, Moving

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.
Josh Radnor

Good, Real, Story

I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.
Bill Parcells

Mark, Demanding, Toe

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Margaret Fuller

Life, Great, Later

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.
Jim Evans

Respect, Job, Tough

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
Piers Anthony

After, Another, Novel

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.
James McGreevey

Good, Government, Help

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.
Jeffrey Sachs

Time, Money, Short

Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.
Craig Kilborn

Saying, Night, Made

When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
Glenn Close

Her, Blood, Behavior

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.
Ann Curry

Women, Power, Ourselves

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman

Life, Blessed, Poor

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
Richard Dreyfuss

Power, Down, Unless

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