Top 14 Elshtain Quotes
#1. Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
John Burnside
#3. We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#4. I don't believe in wearing track pants unless you are in an actual athletic situation.
Carrie Mesrobian
#5. I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own.
Sarah Brightman
#6. The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.
Wei Wu Wei
#7. We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.
Mikhail Bakunin
#8. Marriage does not serve primarily to accommodate or to mitigate social tragedy of this sort. Its principal function is to prevent or limit the occurrence of such tragedies in the first place.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#9. The old adage says that it's better to be lucky than good. Apparently having the right network is better than both. At
J.D. Vance
#10. Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.
Robert Linssen
#11. The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#12. Just punishment, which observes restraints, is different from revenge, which knows no limits.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
#14. You should be allowed to scream in public whenever a conversation gets really awkward. And then time could reset itself and you get a do-over.
Danielle Vega
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