Demonstration Quotes

“Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we’re upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family of origin, from how we learned to be heard when a simple “no” wasn’t enough. We may have learned to mask certain feelings, or portray feelings that weren’t ours. But as adults we each need to learn to state our personal truth without having to prove it or shout it.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“If you wait until you find something to speak up for, something that you’re passionate about that concerns you and attacks your own beliefs, then eventually, when the day finally arrives, you might also find that you have forgotten how to speak.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.”
― John Scalzi, Lock In

“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth century? In stupefaction Ulrich watches the demonstrators from the window; as they reach the foot of the palace, their faces turn up, turn furious, the men brandish their walking sticks, but “a few steps farther, at a bend where the demonstration seemed to scatter into the wings, most of them were already dropping their greasepaint: it would be absurd to keep up the menacing looks where there were no more spectators.” In the light of that metaphor, the demonstrators are not men in a rage; they are actors performing rage! As soon as the performance is over they are quick to drop their greasepaint! Later, in the 1960s, philosophers would talk about the modern world in which everything had turned into spectacle: demonstrations, wars, and even love; through this “quick and sagacious penetration” (Fielding), Musil had already long ago discerned the “society of spectacle.”
― Milan Kundera, The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts

“I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Life is given to everyone as a demonstration of God’s trust.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Under the influence not I know of he hardest cider but of his own inner joy at life for a moment as it should be, as it was meant to be in his nature, Phineas recaptured that magic gift for existing primarily in space, one foot conceding briefly to gravity its rights before spinning him off again into the air. It was his wildest demonstration of himself, of himself in the kind of world he loved; it was his choreography of peace.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“Jesus’ promise of resurrection of believers came with a demonstration. He did it and said His followers who die will do same. This is leadership! It’s based on truth!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“The first drops of rain started to fall.
'God's policemen,' said Jester.
'You what?'
'The police always used to pray for rain before any big demonstration because people wouldn't turn up. Nobody wants to run riot in the streets if it's pouring with rain. Who's going to want to fight in this?”
― Charlie Higson, The Enemy

“I heard there was a riot.'

'There was a demonstration, which I think is different. It was peaceful until it was interrupted.'

Mason seemed to be thinking hard about it.

'What sort of demonstration?'

'Hmm... A new kind. It looked poetical at first but then became rather poletical.”
― Jean-Christophe Valtat, Aurorarama

“she wears her fears, embroidered to perfection. she wears the darkness like a dress. she slays her demons and still looks like a princess”
― excerpt from a book I'll never write

“After all, Father, to understand their demonstration one doesn't have to be very intelligent: it's enough to have suffered.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“One demonstration is equivalent to one hundred explanations.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“People are tired of being told that it's possible... It's time to show them how it can be possible. Leadership is demonstration.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Penetrating influence is in the power and strength of demonstration”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and involves something akin to surrounding it with a whole system of Geiger counters, I can freeze it in such a way that it stops emitting radiation.
Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system.”
― Marcus du Sautoy, The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

“The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Be the type of silence that screams by example.”
― T.F. Hodge

“One living demonstration of the gospel is far better than a hundred explanations of many sermons.”
― Jonathan Hayashi, Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship

“Putting the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is merely a demonstration of willful biological incompetence by high altitude astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“God is not only faithful by definition; He is also faithful by demonstration.”
― Jeremy Gove, Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity

“There are actually eight laws of learning—Demonstration, Explanation, Imitation, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and Repetition. The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning. There is absolutely no substitute for repetition. I believe in learning by repetition to the point where everything becomes automatic… the best teacher is repetition, day after day, throughout the season.” - John Wooden”
― Swen Nater, You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices

“If not thought carefully, our solidarity for just causes can backfire, especially when we are selective in reacting against injustice.”
― Louis Yako

“I am neither Charlie Hebdo staff nor their killers. I am neither the supporters of Charlie Hebdo nor the supporters of their killers. The killed and the killers are no longer, but I still am. My duty as a conscientious writer who didn’t know these people in person is not to be them. It is not to vilify or sanctify any party. And it is certainly not to assume what their message was and reduce that message to a short slogan like “Je suis Charlie.” Our role is to interrogate all actors involved in the crime—including the hidden ones—and try to understand not just how things are, but how they have become the way they are.”
― Louis Yako

“They don’t want us to come together! And you know why? Because they’re afraid of what we have to say, and they don’t care what we want!”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“Hey baton!
Can you play my cock's role? Of course not;
I forgot
Your head hasn't any hole”
― Sobhan Ganji, The Thinnest Condom

“The best proof of qualification is a demonstration.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“We have a very blunt message from the finance team, and they state they will provide a financial demonstration.”
― Philip G. Henley, Sail Chains