Disregard Quotes - Page 5

• Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Expression, Delight, Spirituality

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• If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

  Karen DeCrow

  Political, Looks, Opponents

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• I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

  Ian Frazier

  Pieces, Reader

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• I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

  Randall Kennedy

  People, Trying, And Love

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• Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Investing, Taught, Should

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• Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Sex, Attitude, Patterns

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• It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Confidence, Power, Men

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• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Cutting, Fundamentals, Facts

  "The Things People Say" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2009.

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• The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

  James Joyce

  Adventure, Insecure, Choices

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• Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, War, Men

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.378

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• Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Jobs, Children, Work

  "Family Politics: Love and Power on an Intimate Frontier". Book by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, 1983.

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• A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

  Fritz Leiber

  Healthy, Coincidence, Scientist

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.

  Michael Longley

  Jobs, Men, Bored

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Pain, Other Cultures

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Economics, Moral Values

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.118, A&C Black

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• Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Technology, Weather

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• Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Exercise, Order, Issues

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.

  Marq de Villiers

  Thinking, Europe, Rivers

  Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, People, Safety

  "Rand Paul promises to derail NSA vote" By Allie Malloy, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2015.

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• Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

  John Bunyan

  Children, Would Be, World

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4077, Delphi Classics

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• A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Ideas, Opposites

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1913*). “Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge”

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• And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

  Rachel Field

  Scandal, Way, Catching Up

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  True Friend, Party, Struggle

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• A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a president who 'will disregard the polls and just lead,' ask for the political equivalent of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.'

  Dick Morris

  Thinking, Light, Political

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.87, St. Martin's Press

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• The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl, making her first and only flight in an aeroplane, should somehow bear responsibility for the actions of a government for whom she was never allowed the chance to grow up and vote either for or against.

  Menzies Campbell

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

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