Deliberate Quotes - Page 7

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  Isaac Asimov

  Animal, Humanity, Pet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beautiful, Cousin, Animal

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• Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Beautiful, Mean, Order

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• One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liberty, Use, Coercion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Religion, Atheism, Needs

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• Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

  William Gaddis

  Stupid, Ignorance, Cultivation

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• Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

  Kenneth Koch

  Language, Poetry Is

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• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.

  John B. Jervis

  Hard Work, Knowledge, Science

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• Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

  James K. Polk

  People, Together, Almighty

  James K. Polk (2009). “Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce”, p.2479, Wildside Press LLC

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• From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

  Pope John Paul II

  Choices, Humanity, Conscious

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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• If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Angel, Years

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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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• Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.

  Joseph Butler

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Joseph Butler (1798). “The Analogy of Religion: Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: I. On Personal Identity. II. On the Nature of Virtue. Together with a Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, ... in the Year MDCCLI. By Joseph Butler, ... A New Edition, Corrected. With a Preface, ... by Samuel Halifax, ...”, p.228

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• I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Art, Home, Ambition

  Geraldine Brooks (2011). “Boyer Lectures 2011”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

  Adam Smith

  Dog, Saws, Bones

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I want less melody.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Voice, Want, Manipulate

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.

  Chika Anadu

  Views, People, Decision

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Spring, New Beginnings

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• The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

  Albert Einstein

  Perseverance, Religious, Hard Work

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• Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

  Seamus Heaney

  Hands, Years, Listening

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.416, Macmillan

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• It is the lack of knowledge of, or the unwillingness to recognise, or the deliberate denial of the existence of the serial bully which is the most common reason for an unsatisfactory outcome for both employee and employer.

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Denial, Outcomes

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• Sanctification means more than being freed from sin. It means the deliberate commitment of myself to the God of my salvation, and being willing to pay whatever it may cost.

  Oswald Chambers

  Commitment, Mean, Being Free

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.

  Ashley Montagu

  Communication, Media, Community

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• I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.

  Jack Kelly

  Mistake, Thinking, Law

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• Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Insects, Moths

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.176

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