The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (230 page)

Ice Cube
1970–

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If I'm more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father…you got to look at yourself as a parent.

to Mike Sager in
Rolling Stone
4 October 1990

 
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Ice-T
1958–

1
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

The Ice Opinion
(as told to Heidi Sigmund, 1994) ch. 4

 
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Ignatius Loyola, St
1491–1556

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Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil and not to seek for rest;
To labour and not to ask for any reward
Save that of knowing that we do Thy will.

"Prayer for Generosity" (1548)

 
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Illich, Ivan
1926–

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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Tools for Conviviality
(1973) ch. 3

 
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Inge, William Ralph
1860–1954

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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Idea of Progress
(Romanes Lecture delivered at Oxford, 27 May 1920)

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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

More Lay Thoughts of a Dean
(1931) pt. 4, ch. 1

3
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Outspoken Essays: First Series
(1919) "Patriotism"

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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
a similar image was used by Boris Yeltsin at the time of the failed military coup in Russia, August 1991

Philosophy of Plotinus
(1923) vol. 2, Lecture 22

 
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Ingelow, Jean
1820–97

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Play uppe "The Brides of Enderby".

"The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571" (1863)

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But each will mourn her own (she saith)
And sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.

"The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571" (1863)

 
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