Top 43 Berkman Quotes
#1. Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.
David Burns
#2. Words are as beautiful as wind horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral.
Ted Berkman
#3. The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
Alexander Berkman
#4. Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.
Alexander Berkman
#5. I almost feel guilty. The physical toll is tremendous. Im exhausted and I only played nine innings.
Lance Berkman
#7. If you gave me a choice between being married and being a baseball player, that's a no-brainer. I would be married any day. I just love it.
Lance Berkman
#8. Anarchism means voluntary co-operation instead of forced participation. It means harmony and order in place of interference and disorder.
Alexander Berkman
#9. It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.
Alexander Berkman
#10. Anarchy: It is NOT bombs, disorder or chaos. It is NOT robbery and murder. It is NOT a war of each against all. It is NOT a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that.
Alexander Berkman
#11. I go game to game, at-bat to at-bat. That's my way.
Lance Berkman
#12. Away with the hypocritical horror on the part of capitalist, labor leader, and politician.
Alexander Berkman
#13. The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold.
Alexander Berkman
#15. I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.
Lance Berkman
#16. When I started to play consistently and produce consistently, that's when I knew that I could compete and do well in the big leagues.
Lance Berkman
#17. My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.
Lance Berkman
#18. Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
Alexander Berkman
#19. Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
Alexander Berkman
#20. What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you start to lose confidence, you start to doubt your ability. It's a snowball effect.
Lance Berkman
#21. I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.
Lance Berkman
#22. I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.
Lance Berkman
#23. In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.
Alexander Berkman
#24. Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!
Lance Berkman
#25. God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.
Lance Berkman
#26. I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.
Lance Berkman
#27. They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.
Lance Berkman
#28. The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.
Lance Berkman
#29. Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.
Lance Berkman
#30. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.
Lance Berkman
#31. Existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
Alexander Berkman
#32. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
Alexander Berkman
#33. War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
Alexander Berkman
#34. Theres a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasnt a lot of fun.
Lance Berkman
#35. It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there.
Lance Berkman
#36. One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.
Lance Berkman
#37. I wish I was just a left-handed hitter. It's really tough having to keep both sides sharp, and that's one reason why you don't see switch-hitters hit for that high of an average. You're always fighting one side or the other.
Lance Berkman
#38. I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.
Lance Berkman
#39. I think any great performer or athlete has to have a little bit of a gut to be great.
Lance Berkman
#40. The overriding thing has to be a love for people. If you don't love people, you don't care if we live in a morally degrading society. Christ is about love, and that's what we want to be about as well.
Lance Berkman
#41. When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
Alexander Berkman
#42. What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.
Alexander Berkman
#43. I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.
Lance Berkman
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