#understood

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#been #conformity #creative #despotism #differences

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#black-and-white #films #frank #frank sinatra #guys

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#backwards #forwards #life #lived #must

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#i #magazines #modeling #shows #started

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#america #attack #attacked #britain #civilized

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one. ↗

— Jean Gabin

#door #front #get #had #i

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. ↗

— Francis Lockier

#bible #book #chiefly #divine #necessary

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#anything #becoming #dizzy #only #physics