I Quotes
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“If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.”
“If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.”
“If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays
“If knowledge that moves humanity forward can only be accessed by the rich, we're not moving humanity forward, we're moving the rich.”
“If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school”
“If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.”
Source: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
“If Kona were to get a new logo, it would have to be a original character, not some well know one.”
“If Korea were a person, it would be diagnosed as a neurotic, with both an inferiority and a superiority complex.”
Source: The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture
“If Krishna can do masti
Why can't Radha?
All rights of Shiva
Parvati should also get
Women equalized... womanhood #Mickeymized!”
“If Krishna is good, Christ is good, Allah is good, then Hitler cannot be bad.”
“If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions. But I'm sure that in the end he would have taken it with a grain of salt and moved on. That's the lot of all true visionaries, who don't see the use of working in the same vein as everyone else. Artists like Kubrick have minds expansive and dynamic enough to picture the world in motion, to comprehend not just where its been, but where it's going.”
“If Kurds are united, they are strong. We don’t need enemies or opponents; disunity weakens us and makes us lose opportunities”
Source: Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement: Fourth Edition, 1975-1990 - The Gulan Revolution, Part Two
“If Kushner’s view is correct, then renounce the members of the clergy as charlatans and discard the prayer books as offering only a placebo when true medicine is required. Throw away the Psalms as dealing in falsehoods. Excise “Thank God” from our discourse. If we can’t appeal to Him to help us because He is incapable, why should we thank Him when things go right? There is a certain intellectual dishonesty to this.”
Source: Why God Why: How to Believe in Heaven When it Hurts Like Hell
“If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.”
“If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!”
“If l give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative, maybe you will want to work more.”
“If Labour Party is only fighting for the daily bread, then how does it intend to convince the rich to join them?”
“If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?”
Source: Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition
“If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat.”
“If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.”
“If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.”
“If Lan WangJi had no manners, manners wouldn’t exist in this world.”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.”
“If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.”
“If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.”
Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics
“If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.”
“If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.”
“If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.”
“If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.”
“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.”
“If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.”
“If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.”
“If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.”
Source: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
“If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.”
“If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.”
“If Larry David were living in 18th century France and heard the peasants had no bread, his response "Let them eat cake" would have made people laugh. But when Marie Antoinette said it, they chopped off her head.”
Source: Just the Funny Parts: ... And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys' Club
“If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?”
“If laughter and play are tools for healing, failure is the sharpening stone.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives.”
“If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?”
“If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.”
Source: Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress
“If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.”
“If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.”
“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?”
“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?”
“If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.”
Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness, I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy'd nor esteem'd by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit, to a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home.”
Source: The Fable of the Bees
“If leaders don’t change. Change the leaders,”
Source: Open the Windows
“If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?”