What you need is sustained outrage.… There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

About Molly Ivins

Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, and political commentator, known for her humorous and insightful writing, which often used satire and wit to critique political figures and policies.

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The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging.

—Molly Ivins

action wisdom debt holes

Wouldn't you think some sociologist would have done a comparative study by now to prove, as I have always suspected, that there is a higher proportion of Undeserving Rich than Undeserving Poor?

—Molly Ivins

Whatever you do, don't give up. Because all you can do once you've given up is bitch. I've known some great bitchers in my time. With some it's a passion; with others, an art.

—Molly Ivins

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?

—Molly Ivins

government traffic regulation libertarianism

More quotations tagged with “respect”

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?

—William Stafford

respect the world

Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

love self respect self-worth self-love approval self-respect selfishness

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

—Georges Duhamel

God respect world absurdity

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

—H. L. Mencken

religion respect subjectivity relativism

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

strength hearts change conscience respect nonviolence courage oppression self-respect

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What you need is sustained outrage. . . . There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.