I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If politicians would think more they would act less.”
“If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.”
“If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
“If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.”
“If politics mean…the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people’s children…then it most assuredly is a woman’s job as much as it is a man’s job.”
“If politics were a musical, it would be "Promises, Promises".”
“If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.”
“If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.”
“If polygamy is a sin, then Solomon must inherit the throne of the devil as Antichrist.”
“If poor doomed Olly’s a Radio 4 play, what am I?””
“You, Hugo,” she kisses my earlobe, “are a sordid, low-budget French film. The sort you’d stumble across on TV at night. You know you’ll regret it in the morning, but you keep watching anyway.”
Source: The Bone Clocks
“If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.”
“If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.”
“If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.”
“If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.”
“If Popeye had eaten a quarter of the spinach we saw him eat in the cartoons, he would’ve died of oxalic acid poisoning.”
Source: The New Self-Sufficient Gardener
“If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.”
“If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.”
“If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.”
“If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.”
“If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.”
“If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?”
“If positive Christianity means love of one's neighbour, i.e. the tending of the sick, the clothing of the poor, the feeding of the hungry, the giving of drink to those who are thirsty, then it is we who are the more positive Christians. For in these spheres the community of the people of National Socialist Germany has accomplished a prodigious work.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939
“If positivity is what you put out in the universe, positivity is what you get.”
“If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.”
“If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?”
Source: Animal Liberation
“If possessing everything is the ‘everything’ of my existence, maybe losing everything is the only ‘thing’ that I really need right now.”
“If possession without attachment were possible, then possession would not be a bar to spiritual growth.”
Source: Hermits; The Insights of Solitude
“If possible, it is best to have a balance between the civilisation of city life and the solitude of country living. Too much solitude and we can become isolated and lose the benefit of human culture, progress, and communication. Too much urban life and we lose our spiritual essence and our fundamental native homeostasis. Many people instinctively withdraw to the country or the seaside when they feel the noise of city life is drowning out the quiet, inner voice of peace. The country does what the city cannot. It quietens the mind and brings simplicity into one’s life. The city does what the country cannot. It enlivens the mind and brings culture into one’s life. We try to engage with both and benefit from the well-roundedness of a complete experience of all that life has to offer.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“If Possible, Make Peace. If Not, Put A Full Stop.”
“If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.”
“If possible,
leave room for your enemy
to become your friend.”
“If possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal.”
“If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.”
“If possible, to be in a position to announce who is going to step in as the interim immediately. And if possible, to announce who you're going to nominate to replace that person. For that to be somebody of impeccable integrity and reputation disarms a lot of the worst criticism that it's some kind of a power play. It's a professional approach to replacing a senior official, which is always going to get a lot of attention.”
“If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.”
“If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.”
“If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.”
“If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.”
“If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory, then become the wealthiest person on earth, in terms of courage, confidence and reasoning.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.”
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.”
“If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.”
“If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.”
“If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.”
Source: Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70
“If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.”
Source: Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945
“If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.”
“If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.”
“If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.”