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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 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?)
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)
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 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.
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
nicolas chamfort— Reflections
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
václav havel— Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope
— Variant translation or similar statement: Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.
norman vincent peale— Confident Living (1948), p. 5
The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.
jean sibelius— To Jussi Jalas, October 1, 1939. [3]
Tell those who indulge in these drugs ( LSD , marijuana , and other types) that it is harmful physically, mentally and spiritually, and that they should stop the taking of these drugs. Your duty is to tell them, regardless of whether they accept what you say, or if they ridicule or humiliate you, to boldly and bravely face these things.
meher baba— To Robert Dreyfuss in 1964, p. 6403
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.
Gregory Bateson— p.143, as cited in: Lawrence S. Bale (1992) "Gregory Bateson’s Theory of Mind: Practical Applications to Pedagogy". November 1992. p.20
For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'hold office'; everyone of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.
john f. kennedy— 1964 Memorial Edition of Profiles in Courage, p. 265
President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.
john f. kennedy— Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, August 24, 1960. - The American Presidency Project.
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
l. neil smith— Zero Aggression Principle ("ZAP"), from "Who is a Libertarian?"
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
l. neil smith— (with Rylla Cathryn Smith) What Libertarians Believe, "Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle"
Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner), having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others ("autrui", Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.
african spir— p. 43 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.
— Sir John Harvey-Jones (1882), in Contact - asceis-ices | VIT
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
"I’m not much on staying up at night. I’m not a big worry guy regardless of who we’re playing. It’s just that you respect how hard they play."
— Stoops, Bob. Milian, Jorge (2007-09-03). Bob Stoops Talks Miami-Oklahoma. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
— Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace (1986), Chapter 5 : The Politics of Hope
regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
bodhidharma— The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
The president needs to know it is all a setup. He needs to know that regardless of whether he steps in or not, and I would argue he should definitely not, the deep state tonight is crumbling from within at this very hour.
sean hannity— Hannity on the Fox News Channel, 21 September 2018
Weather abroad And weather in the heart alike come on regardless of prediction.
— 1951A Change ofWorld,'StormWarnings'.
regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.
doron zeilberger— An Enquiry Concerning Human (and Computer!) [Mathematical] Understanding C.S. Calude, ed., "Randomness & Complexity, from Leibniz to Chaitin", World Scientific, Singapore, (October 2007)
regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!
fernando j. "corby" corbató— "PL/I as a Tool for System Programming", Datamation, 15 (5), 6 May 1969, pp. 68–76. This has been paraphrased variously by others as Corbató's Law:Productivity and reliability depend on the length of a program’s text, independent of language level used.Albert Endres, H. Dieter Rombach, A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering: Empirical Observations, Laws and Theories (2003), ISBN 0321154207, p. 72
