Concurrence Quotes

• All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, Positivity

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• The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Israel, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Siddhartha, Enlightenment

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• Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Evil, Decision, Engagement

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• Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Opportunity, Temptation, Inclination

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• Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.

  James Madison

  Law, People, Federalism

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2018). “America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights”, p.403, First Avenue Editions

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• Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Agreement, Crowds, Outcomes

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.85, Penn State Press

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• To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

  Mike DeWine

  Law, Confusion, Judging

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

  Lord Kelvin

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

  "The Life of Lord Kelvin, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips, (2005 edition, p. 1093), 1910.

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• It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

  Emily Dickinson

  Crazy, Thinking, Wish

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• Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Agency, Concerts, Industry

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.73

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• The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Race, Progress, Remember

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

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• Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  News, Tables, Controversial

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Prayer, Heart

  'The Heart'

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• Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Hatred, Certain

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• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature

  David Hume

  Believe, Men, Law

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.139, tredition

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• The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no  concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they  that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love  for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Christian, Charity, Unions

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• There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge

  Francis Bacon (1873). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.219

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• The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

  James Madison

  Men, Hands, People

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.255

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

  Paul Davies

  Numbers, Design, Evolution

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• It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Character, Favors

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “Essays and poems, by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author”, p.3

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• Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

  James P. Hogan

  Religious, Support, Might

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