Abram L. Sachar Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.”
-- Abram L. Sachar

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“We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.”
-- Abram L. Sachar

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“It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”

“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”

Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.

“We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.”

“I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.”

Source : "Interview: Kirby Bliss Blanton and Alexis Knapp on Project X". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2012.

“Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.”

“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”

Source : Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.

“Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.”

“We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.”

“As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.”