I Quotes
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“In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.”
“In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.”
“In expansion sanctity is science, in expansion science is sanctity.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.”
Source: The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
“In experimental science, to say that one understands a process, or can explain it, means that one can control it.”
Source: Lysenko Is Right
“In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.”
“In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peach, negotiation, and foreign commerce.' Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, 'To hell with the Constitution'?”
“In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both." Ruthless Trust, pg 22”
“In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“In exploring the worlds cultures, few means are as powerful and unfailingly unifying as food.”
“In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.”
Source: the elements of style
“In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.”
“In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.”
“In expression of Fatherhood I evolve to become - all I was destined, to be.”
Source: The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration
“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
“In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.”
Source: The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship
“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”
Source: Human.4
“in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.”
“In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
[Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]”
“In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!”
Source: The Art of Peace
“In Extremis by Stewart Stafford
Saturnalia's trumpets sound,
The ancestral chorus song,
Time's gold web drawn back,
For the stocks' denizen throng.
Bawdy knights of the feral feast,
Daze of snoring stranger sloth,
As contagion's banquet guests,
Sipping end times' galling broth.
Bean found in fortuitous cake,
A fool crowned Lord of Misrule,
The meek's pantomimed throne,
A drone in a queen bee's tulle.
Fatted calf, societal scapegoat,
Chattels mopping festive vomit,
Charon coins on bloodshot eyes,
Execution dawn to a dark comet.
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
“In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.”
“In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.”
“In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.”
“In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.”
“In Faceless Time by Stewart Stafford
Her stare burned into me,
In full view, a naked look,
Hubbub quietened down,
Inaudible to the two of us.
Beckoning, a ripened vine,
Ingénue cameo of her face,
I, a happy gatecrasher to life,
Tiptoed in the requited chase.
Her looks carry with me now,
Resplendent in aged raiment,
Ages after my gaze fell on her,
A souvenir sheltered radiant.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.”
“In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.”
“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”
“In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).”
Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
“In fact, a man who has never worn a dress in his life is not entirely free. He is still chained under the shackles of social stereotypes.”
“In fact, about 75 percent of child welfare cases involve not abuse but neglect, which can often be caused by or confused with poverty.”
Source: We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
“In fact, all the evil you find around you is dwelt in your hearts and not in me". - Samael”
Source: The Guardian Angel
“In fact all the Islamists, that is the reformists not the Salafis, now they all say that they want a civil state, a civil state with Islamic reference points. They are not talking about an Islamic state, or sharia in the way this was once understood in the fight against the colonisers, or just afterwards in the 70's, 80's and 90's.”
“In fact almost everyone in my yearbook wrote the same thing to me: "To weird girl, you're nice." I didn't think it was bad. When I showed my mother she said, "Everyone is different." Being weird became my tool. I'm weird; that's who I am. It was my coping badge.”
“In fact, almost half of all scientists believe in some form of Deistic God as confirmed by a survey conducted by Pew Research in 2009. Among most of them who believe in God, they conceive of God as a singularity. Knowledge of Big Bang where everything originated from singularity also provides credence to the idea of a single Ultimate Creator.”
Source: Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
“In fact, although I am not aware of it (and I am never aware of it, no matter how many times I have the dream) her suicide is a foregone conclusion. It is this way in dreams: when decisions are being made, they have already been made.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.”
“In fact"—and he reached up to rub his cheek with long, spare fingers—"with the combination of factors you handed me I don't quite see how she fit in the old Reality.”
Source: The End of Eternity
“In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it”
“In fact, anyone who believes in an old earth, Christian or secular, cannot believe in a global Flood.”
Source: A Flood of Evidence: 40 Reasons Noah and the Ark Still Matter
“In fact, as Foucault and others have shown, prisons and factories came in at about the same time, and their operators consciously borrowed from each other's control techniques. A worker is a part-time slave. The boss says when to show up, when to leave, and what to do in the meantime. He tells you how much work to do and how fast. He is free to carry his control to humiliating extremes, regulating, if he feels like it, the clothes you wear or how often you go to the bathroom. With a few exceptions he can fire you for any reason, or no reason. He has you spied on by snitches and supervisors, he amasses a dossier on every employee. Talking back is called "insubordination," just as if a worker is a naughty child, and it not only gets you fired, it disqualifies you for unemployment compensation… The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans. For certain purposes it's not too misleading to call our system democracy or capitalism or -- better still -- industrialism, but its real names are factory fascism and office oligarchy. Anybody who says these people are "free" is lying or stupid.”
Source: The Abolition of Work
“In fact as I see it, no lover has ever betrayed anybody. It is only ignorance that kills love – nobody betrays it. Both wanted to be together, but somehow both were ignorant. Their ignorance played tricks upon them and became multiplied. By and by they drifted. Then they think that love is dangerous.
Love is not dangerous. Only unawareness is dangerous.”
Source: Beloved of my heart: A Darshan diary
“In fact, as long as the adults in your life are actually not hurting you, you kind of have to accept that they are very unlikely to change. ... Accept them and, if you can, try to help them. ... you could see a really surprising human side of them.”
Source: My Life Uploaded
“In fact, as you allow controlled shock to transform your life from the inside out, you may discover that it is these moments of shock that make you feel the most alive.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.”
“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.”
Source: All We Know of Love
“In fact, by using good habits to keep your teeth away from acid, you may come to realize that doing so is better than infrequent invasive cleanings.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond