Desirable Quotes - Page 18

• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Carpe Diem, Fruit

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• If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

  William Graham Sumner

  Peace, War, Thinking

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “War and Other Essays”

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• Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

  Andre Heller

  Technology, Computer, Shelves

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• The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

  Seth Roberts

  Children, Play, Long

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• Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Beautiful

  "Topics".

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• I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Struggle, Thinking

  G. W. Smith, John Stuart Mill (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments”, p.262, Psychology Press

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• Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

  Francis Arinze

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

  Phillip Lopate

  Discrimination

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books

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• There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Insomnia, World, Oblivion

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”

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• Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.

  Kim Gordon

  Crazy, Mean, The End Of The Day

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Hate, Clothes, Looks

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• Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.

  David Letterman

  Mom, Fun, Home

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• Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Atheism, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.147

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• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Light, Doubt

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing

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• One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, People, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.

  Criss Jami

  Sacrifice, Self, Kind

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.103, Criss Jami

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, People, Progress

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The New Nationalism”, Best Books on

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• One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

  Peter Schmidt

  Art, Reality, Style

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• Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Exercise, Practice, Two

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• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Worst Moments, Desire, Wish

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• It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

  Carrie Snow

  Technology, Use, Facts

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• Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you develop in this manner, success must come of itself. There is only one way by which you can influence others legitimately, and that is through the giving of instruction, but in that case, there is no desire to influence. You desire simply to impart knowledge and information, and you exercise a most desirable influence without desiring to do so.

  Christian D. Larson

  Exercise, Giving, Mind

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.256, Penguin

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• I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows to make and unmake, produce and consume - a style of life which is merely a way station on the road to the depletion and pollution of the environment. The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

  Ivan Illich

  Believe, Independent, Technology

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Character, Mean

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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