Elizabeth Evatt quotes

Elizabeth Evatt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.”
-- Elizabeth Evatt

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“I believe every woman should have the right to live in a home free of deadly weapons.”
-- Elizabeth Evatt

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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
“Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.”
“No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.”
“I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.”
“True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.”
“I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.”
“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
“We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.”

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