Quotes about Demand

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Jesus broke the law of tradition when the love of persons demanded it.

The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

After all, a person has only two hands, and these days there're too many patients and too few doctors.

The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

The market wants to see you persist. It demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

The factory is a dead end and so is compliance. More obedience will not make us better. That's why graceful is in such demand.