#demands

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#bestial #black #body #brilliant #champions

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#achievements #act #average #demands #down

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#demands #enough #exhausted #explained #flop

I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#ending #i #just #know #movie

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#back #been #century #demands #director

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. ↗

— Murray Kempton

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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#capricious #demands #discipline #easy #enough

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way. ↗

— Tom Waits

#certain way #demands #ignore #impossible #magnetism

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#architecture #civilization #culture #demands #downfall

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #brought #cause #centuries #continually