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Quotes About Demand

It's important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence is all around us of tremendous suffering and tremendous destruction. The hope I'm interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Cuántos años y qué luchas internas habían exigido el perfeccionamiento de ese tipo de gestos de fingido desasosiego?
~ Ricardo Piglia
Just. Why, zounds! will you hear me or no?
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
from the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Now." The monosyllable had all the give of a depleted uranium slug. "You had better come and see us now.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Made­lyne, I would like to speak to you in pri­vate after din­ner. Speak to me about what? Made­lyne de­manded with a dis­grun­tled look. Men and their horses, Dun­can told her
~ Julie Garwood
But Walter Matthau had asked $i million
~ Julie Salamon
Mao's instruction to exterminate grass had led to a constant demand for manpower bc of the grass's obstinate nature.
~ Jung Chang
Los estafadores crearon la demanda de microscopios. Por eso, los criminales son indispensables en la sociedad. Aquí fundamos Comercio Pánico con el objetivo de sistematizar los crímenes y así acelerar el proceso de desarrollo social. Esperamos que, con base en este principio, todos nuestros empleados colaboren orgullosamente con el aumento de la felicidad social.
~ K?b? Abe
People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again.
~ Karin Slaughter
The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions
~ Karl Marx
This demand to change consciousness amounts to a demand to interpret reality in another way, i.e., to recognise it by means of another interpretation....They forget however, that to these phrases they themselves are only opposing other phrases, and that they are in no way combating the real existing world when they are merely combating the phrases of this world.
~ Karl Marx
Since elements of productive capital are constantly being withdrawn from the market and all that is put into the market is an equivalent in money, the effective demand rises, without this in itself providing any element of supply.
~ Karl Marx
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
~ Karl Marx
But at the entrance to science, as at the entrance to hell, the demand must be posted: 'Qui si convien lasciare ogni sospetto; Ogni vilta convien che qui sia morta.' Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, ?All cowardice must needs be here extinct
~ Karl Marx
When Bauer asks Jews: Have you the right from your standpoint to crave political emancipation? we would inquire on the contrary: Has the standpoint of political emancipation the right to demand of Jews the abolition of Judaism, or from men generally the abolition of religion.
~ Karl Marx
Needs must, and so on.
~ Kate Atkinson
Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.
~ Ludwig von Mises
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
~ Thomas A. Bailey
If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.
~ Thomas Watson
I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
~ Mark Twain
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
~ Henry David Thoreau