George Stevens Quotes

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

We value some lives more than others.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

The Danes kept the English in a very degraded position, and often did them dishonor. If 100 English met one Dane, evil arose if they did not bow themselves to him; and if they came upon a bridge, they were required to wait; it was a crime if they moved before the Dane passed. In passing, every one inclined himself; whoever did not, if he was taken was shamelessly beaten. In such vileness were the English, so did the Danes vilify them.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

It is no longer permitted them to put themselves, with respect to their houses, on an equal footing with the dwellings of their Muslim neighbors, and still less to build their buildings higher. If they are of the same height, or higher, it is incumbent upon us to pull them down to a size a little less than the houses of the true believers. This conforms to the word of the Prophet: 'Islam rules, and nothing shall raise itself above it.' This is also in order to hinder them from knowing where our weak spots are and in order to make a distinction between their dwellings and ours

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Caste hasn't been a part of creative thoughts and it never will be.

There are bad dudes. There are also irresponsible women.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.