Inconvenient Quotes

• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Freedom, Government, Doe

  International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 U.S. 672, caselaw.lp.findlaw.com. June 26, 1992.

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• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honor, Duty, Dangerous

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Literature, Doe

  "Dictionary of Foreign Quotations" by Mary Collison, p. 235, 1980.

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• President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Loss, President

  "It's All About the Jobs". Mitt Romney's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2011.

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• Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Parent, Generations

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that.  But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

  Al Gore

  Wish, Dots, Human Nature

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• Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Trying, Ifs

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

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• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Believe, Want

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• People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

  David Adam

  Creativity, Anchors, Sea

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• It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Black, Disgrace

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

  Lewis Carroll

  Habit, Kitten, Made

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 12: Which Dreamed it?, 1871.

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Guilt, Spy, President

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• No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

  Lawrence Summers

  Law, Ideas, Economics

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• It's always the guy who gets the diarrhea on the commercial at an inconvenient moment. As if you've ever been in a situation: 'You know, this would be a great time to get the runs, you think? I mean the sun's out, we're on the ferris wheel - what are we waiting for?

  Richard Jeni

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Forever, Geography, Lost

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.349, Random House

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• A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

  Michael Kinsley

  Politician, Inconvenient Truth

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• Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.

  Richard Branson

  Commitment, Successful, Imagination

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• No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

  Arthur Miller

  Honesty, Want, Ifs

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• Al Gore is coming out with a movie about global warming called ' An Inconvenient Truth. ' It's described as a detailed scientific view of global warming. President Bush said he just saw a film about global warming, 'Ice Age 2; The Meltdown.' He said, 'It's so much better than that boring Al Gore movie.'

  Jay Leno

  Views, Ice, Age

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• Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past weekend, Al Gore's movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' earned more per screen than any film in the country. ... I dare say Gore's movie is the highest grossing PowerPoint presentation in history. ... Global warming: Can we live with it? ... It is time we did something, namely resign ourselves to doing nothing [on screen: Follow Congress' Lead]. ... For instance, when sea levels rise, we'll just build levees [on screen: Worked for New Orleans]

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Weekend, Past

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• Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.

  Robert Hass

  Hands, People, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Running, Home, Cupcakes

  "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler". Book by L. Konigsburg, 1967.

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