Nita Lowey quotes

Nita Lowey quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.”
-- Nita Lowey

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“The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.”
-- Nita Lowey

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“The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.”
“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
“There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.”
“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”
“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”
“Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books
“Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from”
“A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.”
“America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.”
“What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?”

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