I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.”
Source: Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.”
“If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.”
Source: Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
“If there is no trust, there is nothing. Trust is all.”
Source: Deathwish
“If there is no truth, there is no injustice.”
Source: Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: The Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty
“If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.”
“If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.”
“If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.”
Source: Wicked, Loving Murder
“If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.”
“If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.”
“If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system”
“If there is no wound in your hand
You can carry poison in your hand.
Poison does not attack one who is unwounded.
There is no evil for one who does not do evil.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“If there is not another life, there is at least another way to live.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“If there is not folly in the world, then the world itself is folly. You must understand that mistakes are not always regrets.”
Source: Presto!
“If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.”
“If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.”
“If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on with You each day is comic-what could be more comic than a human addressing the Ground of Being as an intimate? It's a kind of blasphemy that I dare because you have called for it, and that is pretty humorous, too.”
“If there is not radical, concrete growth in humble love towards everyone (even your enemies), you don’t really know you are a sinner saved by grace. And if there is not radical, concrete growth in confidence and joy (even in difficulties), you don’t really know you are a sinner saved by grace.
- Timothy Keller”
Source: The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World
“If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.”
Source: African and European Addresses
“If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.”
Source: The Dog Stars
“If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.”
Source: Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day
“If there is nothing that needs correcting in the world memory, the only thing left to do is to correct reality where it doesn't agree with that memory.”
Source: Cosmicomics
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.”
“If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and sublime, anything answering that immoderate desire for the infinite and the vague that we call the soul, it is art.”
Source: Memoirs of a Madman
“If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.”
“If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.”
“If there is one area where equity is crucial and essential,
I think it should be the issue of water.”
“If there is one bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward.”
“If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.”
“If there is one city apart from Mumbai where I would love to settle down, it has to be Chennai.”
“If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.”
Source: March
“If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.”
“If there is one common theme to the vast range of crises...it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks, corporations, or consumers, often poses greater systemic risks than it seems during a boom.”
“If there is one commonality between patients with eating disorders, perhaps it is that there is disharmony in the link between body and mind. This can manifest in various ways such as, for example, the “false bodies" described in a later chapter.”
Source: Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction
“If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953
“If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.”
“If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.”
Source: The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised
“If there is one doctrine that I could give you it’s this - the whole world is our family.”
Source: Let The Poor Be Your God
“If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.”
“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by the laws of physical and astronomical science, it is doubtless that of Christ, or the legend, which under that name is really dedicated to the worship of the Sun. The hatred, which the sectarians of that religion,—jealous to make their form of worship dominant over all others,—have shown against those, who worshipped Nature, the Sun, the Moon and the Stars, against the Roman Deities, whose temples and altars they have upset,—would suscitate the idea, that their worship did not form a part of that otherwise universal religion.”
“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”
“If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.”
“If there is one good thing about an angry mob, it's that they are so focused on being angry and mobbish that they sometimes miss little things. Things like a horse-drawn cart being driven by the very person who has made them so angry and mobbish in the first place.”
Source: Another Whole Nother Story
“If there is one gospel that I could give you - it's this - be gods and make gods.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations