I Quotes
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“It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.”
“It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.”
“It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.”
Source: Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume I: Genesis
“It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual”
Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill
“It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.”
Source: The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works
“It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing a higher order of existence. Liberation is to know you are that.”
“It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
“It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.”
“It is vain to try and hide a bad spirit from the eyes of them who are spiritual, for it will show itself in speaking and in writing as well as in all other conduct, it is also useless to make great pretensions when the heart is not right before God, for God looks at the heart, and where the heart is not right the Lord will expose it to the view of the faithful.”
“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's
youthful ideals.”
“It is values that form our decisions.”
“It is values that tell you what your pattern and values must be on daily bases.”
“It is vanity to chase the wind.”
“It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
Source: Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy
“It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.”
“It is very beautiful over there. (last words)”
“It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.”
“It is very cheap to dream big, but it will cost you to actualize those dreams.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.”
“It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.”
“It is very clear that the heavens declare the glory of God. We learn a lot about the glory of God without even Scriptures. We know God is organized. We know God likes variety. We know God is powerful. All these things.”
“It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.”
“It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.”
“It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.”
“It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.”
“It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.”
“It is very concerning that police officers are killing people they have just woken up from a deep sleep.”
“It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.”
“It is very curious to see how in China and Morocco the vanquished pay for the costs of the expedition that crushed them.”
“It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”
“It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.”
“It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.”
“It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.”
“It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.”
“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the excellent word Entropy, which Clausius has introduced in this connexion, is applied by him to the negative of the idea we most naturally wish to express. It would only confuse the student if we were to endeavour to invent another term for our purpose. But the necessity for some such term will be obvious from the beautiful examples which follow. And we take the liberty of using the term Entropy in this altered sense ... The entropy of the universe tends continually to zero.”
Source: Sketch Of Thermodynamics
“It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.”
“It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.”
“It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.”
“It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
“It is very difficult and, in many cases, ultimately hopeless, to try to be kind to people who are unkind to you. But if you give it a try, it is not impossible and it is the noblest thing to do.”
“It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.”
“It is very difficult for a man to allow his heart to walk around outside of his body. He wants to protect it at every moment.”
Source: An Imperfect Engagement
“It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.”
“It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.”
“It is very difficult for me to decide whether I am a nightmare in a relationship or just simply someone who won't settle for anything other than joy. This is the eyes of society labels me selfish or wild or untameable. Who in their right mind would want to be tamed anyway? No one should want to be tamed!”
Source: MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
“It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence