Uncommitted Quotes

• Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Crime, Art Is

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.

  Stephen R. Gregg

  Commitment, Sacrifice, People

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• Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted.

  A. R. Bernard

  Excuse, Crutches

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• The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

  Marshall Fishwick

  Commitment, Worth Living

  Marshall William Fishwick (1963). “Faust Revisited: Some Thoughts on Satan”

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• Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!

  Eric Thomas

  Life, Motivational, Hurt

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• I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Men, People

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

  Theodor Adorno

  Stupidity, Culture, Reactions

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Worth Living

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• The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

  Philip Yancey

  Way, Share, Source

  Philip Yancey (2014). “Vanishing Grace Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News?”, p.24, Zondervan

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Wind, Water

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  Karl Kraus

  Sorry, Law, Abortion

  Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar

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• Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted.

  John Oliver

  Fox News, Months, Foxes

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• To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

  Judith Malina

  Talking, People, Looks

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• I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

  Edward Said

  Causes, Affiliation, Has Beens

  Silvia Nagy, Edward W. Said (2006). “Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said”, p.209, Lexington Books

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• A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Heart, Doe, Want

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.232, Algora Publishing

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• As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Differences, Jail, Long

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Where I Lived, and What I Lived For'.

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• They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

  Dean Koontz

  Jobs, Ideas, Guy

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• In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Song, Morning, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.275, Delphi Classics

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• Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

  Theodor Adorno

  Black And White, Choices, Would Be

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.132, Verso

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• Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Domination, Folks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.204, Verso

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• Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Commitment, Careers

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• Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of the physical aspects of the relationship, and they have no particularly compelling reason to explore its depths.

  Chip Ingram

  Couple, Compelling Reason, Depth

  Chip Ingram (2014). “Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships: God's Prescription for Enhancing Your Love Life”, p.75, Baker Books

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• Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mirrors, Views, Judging

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• You know how funerals are not for the dead, they’re for the living? Bachelor parties are not for the groom, they’re for the uncommitted.

  Bill Murray

  Party, Funeral, Bachelors

  "Bill Murray Crashes Bachelor Party, Offers Advice To Young Bucks" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2014.

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