Regardless Quotes
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Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.
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I want to tell the good people of this state as a judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit, if I didn’t have what it took to treat a man fair regardless of his color, then I don’t have what it takes to be the governor of your great state.
george wallace— First gubernatorial campaign (1958), quoted in George Wallace: Conservative Populist (2004) by Lloyd Earl Rohler
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
irena sendler— Quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (2005-03-03)
I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
malcolm (malcolm little) x— Interview (January 1965?)
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
thomas gray— Thomas Gray, The Bard, (1757), II, 2, Line 9.
The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.
Andrea Dworkin— Woman Hating, ch. 9, p. 23, E.P. Dutton, New York (1974)
The idea of preaching the gospel to all nations alike, regardless of nationality, of internal divisions as to rank and color, complexion and religion, constituted the beginning of a new era in history. You cannot preach the gospel in its purity over the world, without proclaiming the doctrine of civil and religious liberty, without overthrowing the barriers reared between nations and clans and classes of men, without ultimately undermining the thrones of despots, and breaking off the shackles of slavery, without making men everywhere free.
— Albert Barnes, p. 289. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The legal residents and citizens of France, regardless of ancestry. People whose ancestors lived in France or the area that later became France (including French Algeria which was an integral part of French territory from 1848 to 1962).. Sourced
— Charles Seignobos, A History of the French People (1934), Read Books, 2006, p.33
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble , and serve womankind , regardless of rank, age, or color.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, in Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Warm You in Cold Weather: Little Women .., p.366
regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
leymah gbowee— Gruber Foundation, Women's Rights Prize (2009)
"Oklahoma is, they're Oklahoma. It doesn't matter what their ranking is. I mean, whether they're 0-4 or 4-0 like they are right now, they're going to be Oklahoma. ...regardless of their ranking, we know it's going to be a really tough battle."
— Hawkins, Dan. Ringo, Kyle (2007-09-24). "Buffs vow not to be intimidated by OU". BuffZone.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-25.
Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
thomas gray— 1742 Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (published1747), l.51-4.
I will endeavour to put the word sex in capital letters on the cover of every issue of the Literary Review under my editorship, regardless of its actual contents? My purpose is simply to embolden booksellers.
Auberon Alexander Waugh— 1986 In the DailyTelegraph, 9 May.
Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.
lawrence m. krauss— The Physics of Star Trek, HarperPerennial edition (1996), p. 17.
My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.
Sidney Lanier— Letter to the poet's father May 6 1876.
Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.
hans christian von baeyer— Chapter 23, Black Holes, Where information goes to hide, p. 204
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness there was always folks stupid enough to say, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire,” when the saying should have been, “Where there’s scandalous lies there’s always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
orson scott card— Chapter 17 (Alvin Journeyman (1995))
I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.
matt dillon— Bobby Rockel (May 2, 1997) "Best Is Yet to Come, Says Actor Matt Dillon", The Daily Oklahoman, p. 7.
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
madeleine l'engle— Section 1.14
People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.
leo tolstoy— III (A Letter to a Hindu (1908))
Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.
— Statement of 1918, as quoted in Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary (1996) by Dmitri Volkogonov, p. 213
The image of the lighted ship sliding under the waves, while the band carried on regardless, captured the public’s imagination.
steve turner— p. 7 (The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011))
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
— Andrew Sullivan, "Imaginationland", The Daily Dish (2007-10-25).
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
— United Nations General Assembly (December 10, 1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Palais de Chaillot, Paris: United Nations. pp. Article 19. Text
The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.
— William O. Douglas, (Branzburg v. Hayes, 1972).
regardless of the response from the Jewish person, we remain friends in support of the State of Israel as required by scripture.
jerry falwell— "Hagee, Falwell deny endorsing 'dual covenant'" in The Jerusalem Post (2 March 2006)
regardless of the dutiful pushing of condoms in the girls' press, the exposure of baby vaginas and cervixes to the penis is more likely to result in pregnancy and infection than orgasm.
Germaine Greer— Girlpower (pg. 332)
regardless of its purpose, the humpback-whale song is the most complex piece of nonhuman composition on earth. Whether it's art, prayer, or booty call, the humpback song is an amazing thing to experience firsthand, and I suspect that even once the science of it is put to bed, it will remain, as long as they sing, magic.
christopher moore— Author's notes : Science and Magic
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are
Chad Kroeger— Chad Kroeger, in the song "If Today Was Your Last Day" (2008) performed by his band, Nickelback
regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven ." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. … The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. … When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.
— Ben Salmon, in a Letter To President Wilson (June 5, 1917)
