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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
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
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))
Therefore is not by any to be enterprized, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy men's carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts that have no understanding; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.
— Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.
In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anti-climax.
Alfred Kazin— In Think, Feb 1963
'Dry again?' said the Crab to the Rock-Pool. 'So would you be,' replied the Rock-Pool, 'if you had to satisfy, twice a day, the insatiable sea.'
cyril connolly— Part I: Ecce Gubernator (p. 11)
We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.
Oliver Cromwell— Statement to Colonel Valentine Walton, 5 or 6 September 1644
A fiduciary duty to one's brothers is not something that need bind the hand of any man if he can satisfy the Court on the balance of probabilities that, through his actions, he would get some.
denning, alfred, baron denning— Kerry v. Smith & Warden [1967] 1 QB 347
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
It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can satisfy your desire.
— Book 1, Ch 44 (as translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella)
Economic progress... means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power all these things clearly represent economic progress.
kenneth boulding— p.23Remark: Boulding gave the same example in his 1945 The economics of peace, p.74
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.
leonard cohen— Interview with BBC Radio 1FM (1994)
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace, but a peace, I hope, with honour which may satisfy our Sovereign, and tend to the welfare of the country.
benjamin disraeli— From the window of 10 Downing Street, after arriving from Dover (16 July, 1878). 'Return Of Lord Beaconsfield And Lord Salisbury', The Times (17 July, 1878), p. 5.
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them
john rawls— Chapter III, Section 29, pg.177
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.
john rawls— Chapter IX, Section 84, p. 558
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
laura riding— "The Myth" from Anarchism Is not Enough (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)
The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority , advantage, or privilege . These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
— Wyndham Lewis, in Wyndham Lewis: Radical for the Permanent Things
IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind ), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind .
— In Wikisource:The poems of John Godfrey Saxe The Blind Men and the Elephant. The version in Jainism is similar as here Elephant And The Blind Men. In Hinduism, Ramakrishna narrates the same parable but with four blind men, in Approaching Humankind: Towards an Intercultural Humanism, p.151
A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
Eric Hoffer— Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, Section 7 (1951)
Matters depending in our Courts are composed of an infinite number of special circumstances, and it therefore is as rare to find a precise correspondence between the facts of one case and those of another, as an exact resemblance in the face of one man to that of another. Therefore it is the wisdom of the sages of our law, by the analogy with other cases, to investigate their doubts, and thus to satisfy their judgments.
— Per Curium (Mallet, Twitden and Terrill, JJ.), Manby v. Scott (1672), 1 Levinz, 4; 2 Sm. L. C. (8th ed.) 455.
In Marketing there are those who satisfy needs and those who create wants.
— Juan Carlos Castillo (1974- ), Marketing in Action (2005)
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— Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Parables, Prodigal Son.
Candies come, flowers come, furs come, but such ephemeral gifts fail to satisfy a woman's psychological craving for a renewal of the romance .
— N. W. Ayer, in "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?"
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold , they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman ... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
— Andreas Capellanus, in A father: The leader of every home, 15 June 2013 Nigeria world
