I Quotes
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“If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.”
Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress
“If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.”
“If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.”
“If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.”
“If we indeed possess light we shall never be afraid to go and face darkness anywhere, any-time.”
“If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.”
Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles of the Christian Life
“If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.”
“If we insist on judging Ei by our own humanness, we will not exceed our human limitations and will not progress beyond our self-destruction capacity.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job's dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.”
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.”
Source: Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties
“If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for”
“If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.”
“If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.”
“If we internalize every disappointing setback with contempt and self-loathing, a life of solitary confinement and discontentment awaits us. It’s a verdict indicted by a prosecution, deliberated by a jury and condemned by a judge…all three being you. We imprison ourselves when we allow outside negative circumstances and people dictate who we are. You can dwell in that cell…but only you can exonerate you. ~Jason Versey”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.”
“If we interpret St. Augustine in material terms, by the pure light of a reason which is not truly theological but geometric, his teaching seems to annihilate the creature. As a result of original sin man is taken to be essentially corrupt; that is the doctrine of Luther, of Calvin, of Jansenius.
Is not this the purest pessimism? Nature is corrupted in its essence by original sin; and under grace it remains corrupt, grace being here not life, but a covering cloak. Yes, it is the purest pessimism: but there is a singular result. Human nature before sin possessed as its due all the privileges of Adam. Now this corrupt man, who can merit nothing for Heaven, and whom faith covers with Christs grace as with a cloak, has nevertheless a value here on earth, even as he is and according to what he is, in the very corruption of his nature. Make way there for this sullied creature, since man must live in the hell which is this world!
Such is the dialectic, the tragedy of the protestant conscience, with its admirably vivid and aching sense, but too purely human, too darkly human sense of mortal misery and sin. The creature declares its nothingness. But this declaration is its own. Man is a walking corruption; but this irremediably corrupt nature cries out to God, and the initiative, do what one will, is thus man’s battle cry.”
Source: True Humanism
“If we invade Iraq and the regime is very close to falling, I'm very, very concerned that the Iraqis will, in fact, use weapons of mass destruction.”
“If we invest in jobs for our kids and do our best to keep them in school, we will end up saving a whole lot of lives and whole lot of money.”
“If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.”
“If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.”
“If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.”
“If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.”
“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
“If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.”
“If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.”
“If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.”
“If we just create and don't think about what might happen, that's when we're going to get into trouble.”
“If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around.”
“If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.”
“If we just keep sleeping together we'll just be one race and it won't be a problem.”
“If we just planned for everything we could, we’d make it through everything we couldn’t.”
Source: The Selection (The Selection, Book 1)
“If we just see life as we think it is and we perceive things only from our own tapered point of view and don't learn the idioms of the others, life is doomed to remain a misconstruction. ("Waiting for the smoke signals")”
“If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.”
“If we just stay at the crest of the mycelial wave, it will take us into heretofore unknown territories that will be just magnificent in their implications.”
“If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.”
“If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.”
“If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.”
“If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals - always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.”
“If we keep allowing ourself to be downtrodden, eventually we can become someone's doormat or we can learn to get stronger.”
“If we keep allowing ourselves to be downtrodden, eventually we can become someone's doormat or we can learn to get stronger.”
“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”
“If we keep an optimistic view about the future, we definitely have to look for our place. Not to be redundant. And that means we have to emphasize what makes us unique.”
“If we keep being fair despite the injustices against us, in the end, life will reward us, I believe. The world isn't fair, because it's imperfect. Right and wrong coexist. But we should stick to morality to help the world become better.”
“If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.”
“If we keep challenging entrenched prejudices, we can embrace diversity of thought and experience. Openmindedness heightens our self-awareness and compassion. (On a Doggy Day)”
“If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.”
Source: The Sparrow
“If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.”
Source: First Things First
“If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace.”