Promises
- A promise similar to an oath
- A promise to donate funds, as in a pledge drive
- Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise by politicians to oppose tax increases
- The Pledge (New Hampshire), a similar promise first used in New Hampshire
- Pledge of Allegiance, an oath of loyalty to the United States
- Singapore National Pledge, an oath of allegiance to Singapore
- A commitment to abstain from alcohol, popularized by Theobold Mathew and currently in use by Hope UK
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Famous quotes containing the word promises:
“I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its “successful experiment” that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wander helplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man’s lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities—a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)