I Quotes
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“It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.”
“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”
“It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.”
“It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.”
“IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn’t face much competition.”
“It is now routine to refer to people as crazy rather than evil, eliminating their moral agency and obviating meaningful debate.”
“It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.”
Source: SCUM Manifesto
“It is now that the Left in India is urging the federal government to initiate unconditional talks with all stakeholders in Kashmir. Otherwise, up until now, the Left didn't even support the autonomous status of Kashmir, and the Kashmir imbroglio is not a conflict between the forces of Marxism and capitalism.”
“It is now the dog days of August, the breathless days when a person tallies their regrets.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“It is now the task of this younger generation not to forget and to ensure that Shlomo Venezia voice will be heard forever.”
Source: Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
“It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.”
“It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself.”
“It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.”
“It is now up to us to see that we embark on the next stage leading to political unity, which I think is the consequence of economic unity, so that Europe can in the future also play a political role on the international stage, leading even as far as a common defence policy.”
“It is now utterly impossible for human nature to go on subsisting unless there are some limits to aggression between states.”
Source: Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
“It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.”
“It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.”
Source: Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences
“It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.”
“It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.”
“It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.”
“It is now widely and rightly accepted that we live in a world which is more interdependent than ever before, and that problems are increasingly global in character. At the risk of stating the obvious, I would say that when governments realize that certain problems are beyond their powers, it is clear that the United Nations has an irreplaceable role to play.”
“It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next decade. The entry of large numbers of American and other biochemists into the field will ensure that all the chemical details of replication and transcription will be elucidated. Because of this, I have long felt that the future of molecular biology lies in the extension of research to other fields of biology, notably development and the nervous system.”
“It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“It is now, and in this world, that we must live.”
“It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.”
“It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be able to marshal the moral resources needed to face the demands of the present, and to pass on to coming generations a society of authentic justice, solidarity and peace.”
“It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.”
“It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.”
“It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.”
Source: Poor Richard Day by Day
“It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to "scour the anchor.”
Source: Self-help
“It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.”
“It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.”
“It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.”
“It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.”
Source: Gulliver’s Travels
“It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.”
Source: Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-67
“It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.”
Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
“It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.”
“It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“It is obvious that any rather non-color, monochromatic design is safe, easier, more generally restful and with life being the hurdy-gurdy that it is, more and more of us prefer and interior giving the maximum response.”
“It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.”
“It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.”
“It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.”
“It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.”
Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
“It is obvious that he has set himself an impossible task; slow and gradual transformations are possible, they even happen quite frequently, but they do not lead us to a new life; they only take us from one old life to another old life. The new life always makes itself known abruptly, without any approach or preparation, and it keeps its strange enigmatical character in the midst of events whose course has been determined by the old laws.”
Source: Noaptea din gradina Ghetsimani
“It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.”
“It is obvious that if many bishops had acted like Msgr. de Castro Mayer, Bishop of Campos in Brazil, the ideological revolution within the Church could have been limited, because we must not be afraid to affirm that the current Roman authorities, since John XXIII and Paul VI, have made themselves active collaborators of international Freemasonry and of world socialism. John Paul II is above all a communist-loving politician at the service of a world communism retaining a hint of religion. He openly attacks all of the anti-communist governments and does not bring, by his travels, any Catholic revival.
These conciliar Roman authorities cannot but oppose savagely and violently any reaffirmation of the traditional Magisterium. The errors of the Council and its reforms remain the official standard consecrated by the Profession of Faith of Cardinal Ratzinger in March 1989.”
Source: Spiritual Journey
“It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.”