Recognition Quotes

My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it’s a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

There’s unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.

Wherever I go people recognize me, call my name, cheer for me. But there are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today.

We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Bebop didn’t have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn’t even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging – but they weren’t sweet.

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

It is nice when people recognize me and approach me in the street. Anyone who says they don’t like that is lying.