I Quotes
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“It is a vice to be proud or unashamed of your vice.”
“It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.”
“It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.”
“It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.”
“It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.”
Source: Interventions
“It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God”
“It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.
People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?”
“It is a vision of every human being, bursting with fire and with mystery, a vision I cannot deny, nor blot out, nor ever turn away from, nor ever belittle nor ever escape.”
Source: Vittorio, The Vampire
“It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy”
Source: Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)
“It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism”
“It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war!”
“It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.”
“It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.”
Source: The Art of Philosophizing: and Other Essays
“It is a waste of energy to open your eyes, or to keep them open, when it is completely dark.”
“It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.”
“It is a waste of time not to do the most effective, useful, or important thing you can do.”
“it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.”
Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
“It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.”
“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.”
“It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.”
“It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.”
Source: Seventh Son: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?”
“It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.”
Source: Today's the Day!
“It is a weapon of spiritual warfare to rejoice in the Lord, in full confidence of what God will produce from your darkness, and in the face of insurmountable evidence to the contrary.”
Source: Who Do You Say I Am?: Overcoming the Spirit of Identity Theft
“It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.”
“It is a week since I arrived in Mecco, and for the first time I have leisure to write up my journal. The life of a Foreign Observer is very strenuous, for the Meccanian method of seeing everything according to programme and timetable is very fatiguing. Already I feel that a holiday will be welcome at the end of my tour. In the whole of this vast city of Mecco there is nothing casual, nothing incidental, nothing unprovided for. Although I am only a spectator, I feel like a little cog in the huge complicated machine. The machine seems to absorb everything; the individual counts for nothing. That is perhaps the reason why it seems impossible to get into contact with any human being other than the officials who instruct me and conduct me every moment of my time. I begin to wonder whether the individual Meccanian really exists, or whether his personality is merged in the official personality which is all that is visible to me.”
Source: Meccania, the Super-State
“It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.”
“It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.”
“It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.”
“It is a well-documented fact that pornography as a separate category did not exist until the nine-tenth century, when lawmakers throughout Europe ostensibly sought to protect a predominantly white, middle-class female population from sexually explicit material and - by extension - knowledge of their own sexuality.”
Source: Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Politics of Sex in Performance
“It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.”
“It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.”
Source: The Law of Success
“It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.”
Source: Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games
“It is a well-known fact that English people never know anything. They only think. The only exception they know and they are sure about in the whole world is Marmite. ‘Love it or hate it.’ There are no other options; there is no space for grey space.”
Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
“It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.”
Source: An Introduction to Philosophy
“It is a well-known fact that Henry Morton Stanley evaluated the population size on the basis of a very limited number of observations along the Congo river, and dubious extrapolation calculation methods containing several errors. As a matter of fact, nobody, even today, can seriously provide any reliable figures in this respect.”
“It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
“It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.”
“It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.”
“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”
“It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love. ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.”
“It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.”
“It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.”
Source: The Vision of Hamilton: Hamilton's 4 Reports and LaRouche's 4 Laws
“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.”