I Quotes
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“If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.”
“If an individual has a calm state of mind,
that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil
even in the presence of great agitation.”
“If an individual is a terrorist, then you should not be promoting those people and putting them under a good light, if you will, and promoting to the young generation to come. That will only be spoiling the young generation.”
“If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.”
Source: The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk
“If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?”
Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
“If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.”
“If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?”
“If an inheritance is not deserved in any way by the person who inherits it, this is a real theft and a great injustice!”
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
“If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.”
“If an institution has become so large that there
is no alternative except for the taxpayers to
provide support, should we allow so many
institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?”
“If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people became increasingly 'moral', since lethal force is usually imminent. So far from moral fervour being an alternative to force, it is frequently the overture, the accompaniment and the memorial to it.”
“If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.”
Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…
“If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.”
“If an invisible man catches on fire, can you see him burn?”
“If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.”
“If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.”
“If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.”
Source: Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life
“If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.”
“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse
“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.”
“If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.”
“If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”
“If an opponent won't watch you bet, then you probably shouldn't.”
“If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.”
“If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.”
“If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.”
“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!"”
“If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.”
“If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.”
“If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against you.”
“If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.”
“If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.”
“If an organization produces a document, it should be made public as soon as possible.”
“If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I'd probably spend a lot of money on it.”
“IF AN OTTER GETS INSIDE, YOU OTTER GET OUT THE SMELL!”
Source: The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
“If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.”
“If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.”
“If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“If an unexecuted idea still lingering on in your mind, the idea must be worth taking the risk.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.”
“If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!”
Source: The Heart of William James
“If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?”
Source: The Best of Confucius
“If anaphylactic shock is wrong, I don't wanna bee bite.”
“If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.”
“If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures to deny the rights of the individual instead of reconciling the rights of the individual with the collective, I would definitely stand completely on the side of the individualist who is trying to rescue above all that most precious thing that makes us human - consciousness and personality.”
“If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.”
Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE