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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred [nor] allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.
Martin Luther King Jr.— Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug 1963, during the March on Washington.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi— Quoted in EF Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
This is exactly the kind of thing Templeton is ceaselessly angling for – recognition among real scientists – and they use their money shamelessly to satisfy their doomed craving for scientific respectability. They tried it on with the Royal Society of London, and they seem to have found a compliant Quisling in the current President, Martin Rees, who, though not religious himself, is a fervent 'believer in belief'.
martin rees— Richard Dawkins (23 March 2010), Shame on the National Academy, retrieved on 2013-04-11
— on the US National Academy of Sciences hosting the announcement of the 2010 Templeton Prize
In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.
— Chapter I. (Part II)
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
Robert Nozick— Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework as Utopian Common Ground, p. 320
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
karl marx— Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, 1960
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.
john godfrey saxe— "The Blindmen and the Elephant", a poem based on ancient parables of blind men and an elephant.
Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 128 (The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007))
Software engineering concerns methods and techniques to develop large software systems. The engineering metaphor is used to emphasize a systematic approach to develop systems that satisfy organizational requirements and constraints.
— Hans van Vliet (2007) Software Engineering: Principles and Practice. p. 2
'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'
Donald Barthelme— 1968 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts,'The Indian Uprising'.
One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past isto satisfy themselves that it isstill there.
Ronald George Blythe— 1979 The View in Winter, introduction.
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Bible (Old Testament)— Proverbs 5:18-19.
I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy, and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.
emily brontë— Heathcliff (Ch. XXXIV).
There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said “we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge.” It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.
judith butler— Interview with Judith Butler. in: The Believer. May 2003
Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
zora neale hurston— Ch. 14 : Love, p. 203.
Every human being longs to be happy, to satisfy the wants of the body with food, with roof and raiment, and to feed the hunger of the mind, according to his capacity, with love, wisdom, philosophy, art and song.
— How To Reform Mankind (1896). Republished by Kessinger Publishing, Llc, 2005.
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.
william stanley jevons— Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 61
A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.
Adam Smith— Chapter VII, p. 67
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.
richard chenevix trench— Notes on the Parables, Prodigal Son; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 321.
You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise?
henry wotton— On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, stanza 1 (1624). In some versions "moon" replaces "sun". This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books", for example.
[Our goal was to] translate aspects of culture never successfully recorded by the scientist, although often caught by the artist, into some form of communication sufficiently clear and sufficiently unequivocal to satisfy the requirements of scientific enquiry.
Margaret Mead— p. xi (Balinese Character, 1942)
Hope , in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 23. (Helen Zimmern translation)
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?
walt whitman— Laws for Creations.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
— Benjamin Franklin, "On True Happiness", Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 November 1735.
When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society. So when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged.
— Mattie Brinkerhoff, women's suffrage movement leader, in The Revolution (September 2, 1869).[3].
It is the great duty of every Court of justice to administer justice as well as they can between the litigating parties:;; another, and not less material, duty is to satisfy those parties that the whole case has been examined and considered.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., Booth v. Hodgson (1795), 6 T. R. 408.
The Court will not keep back their opinion without having sufficient ground for doubting, and a necessity of taking time to satisfy their doubts: on the other hand, they will not give their opinions over-hastily and prematurely, merely to gratify the humours or passions of mankind.
— Aston, J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 1097.
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Antichrist (1888), Sec. 23
When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we may safely conclude that there is something wrong in society. So when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged.
— Mattie Brinkerhoff, women's suffrage movement leader, in The Revolution (September 2, 1869).[10].
