Top 30 Quotes About Jeannette Rankin
#2. Time is an imp - a pesky, little, hellish troll that hastens the clock when I smile but then delays the passing of minutes when I frown.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
Jeannette Rankin
#5. Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights ...
Jeannette Rankin
#6. There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Jeannette Rankin
#7. Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
Jeannette Rankin
#8. I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.
Diane Paulus
#9. We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.
Jeannette Rankin
#10. I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.
Jeannette Rankin
#11. Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
Jeannette Rankin
#12. The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Jeannette Rankin
#13. What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
Jeannette Rankin
#15. As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
Jeannette Rankin
#16. I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#17. But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?
Daniel Handler
#18. The mere fact you're delivering any will help, I'm sure, said Professor Pelc, smiling like a doctor telling a man not to worry, the disease is only fatal in 87 per cent of cases.
Terry Pratchett
#19. In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.
Wayne Grudem
#21. I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won't be the last.
Jeannette Rankin
#22. You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
Jeannette Rankin
#23. You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.
Joell Ortiz
#25. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
Jeannette Rankin
#26. It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.
Richard P. Feynman
#27. War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Jeannette Rankin
#28. Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
Jeannette Rankin
#29. The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.
Jeannette Rankin
#30. It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.
Jeannette Rankin
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