I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“It is wrong that corporations and the super wealthy play by a different set of rules.”
“It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.”
Source: Lord Foul's Bane
“It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.”
“It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.”
“It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.”
“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”
“It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.”
“it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.”
“It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.”
Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays
“It is wrong to equate scientific laws, as a human construct, with the absolute truth.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.”
“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.”
“It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.”
“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.”
“It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes.”
Source: The Feminine Mystique
“It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck”
“It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.”
“It is wrong to make statements in the name of science to presuppose the truth instead of accurately representing it.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“It is wrong to oppose to objects an isolated ego-subject, without seeing in the Dasein the basic constitution of being-in-the-world; but it is equally wrong to suppose that the problem is seen in principle and progress made toward answering it if the solipsism of the isolated ego is replaced by a solipsism en deux in the I-thou relationship. As a relationship between Dasein and Dasein this has its possibility only on the basis of being-in-the-world. Put otherwise, being-in-the-world is with equal originality both being-with and being-among.”
Source: The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
“It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts aside his wooden sword, slingshot, bow-and-arrow and other childish games, when he begins to forge ahead, when the seriousness of the work begins to transform the rough-neck into a delicate, serious and an almost ascetic creature, when his face takes on an intelligent, deeper and more purposeful expression - then a teacher's heart laughs with happiness and pride. It is his duty and responsibility to control the raw energies and desires of his charges and replace them with calmer, more moderate ideals. What would many happy citizens and trustworthy officials have become but unruly, stormy innovators and dreamers of useless dreams, if not for the effort of their schools? In young beings there is something wild, ungovernable, uncultured which first has to be tamed. It is like a dangerous flame that has to be controlled or it will destroy. Natural man is unpredictable, opaque, dangerous, like a torrent cascading out of uncharted mountains. At the start, his soul is a jungle without paths or order. And, like a jungle, it must first be cleared and its growth thwarted. Thus it is the school's task to subdue and control man with force and make him a useful member of society, to kindle those qualities in him whose development will bring him to triumphant completion.”
Source: Beneath the Wheel
“It is wrong to say that there was no antisemitism in the Labour Party. But it is also wrong to say that every allegation of antisemitism in the Labour Party was true. Questions about the prevalence of antisemitism in the party remain a dificult, but important and necessary, subject for rational debate. The charge of 'denialism' killed this nuance. It demanded that anyone exercising scepticism be ejected from the political and moral community as anti-Jewish bigots - even when the sceptics in question were themselves Jewish.”
Source: The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy
“It is wrong to say that "time is limited". Actually, life is limited, not time!”
“It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.”
“It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.”
“It is wrong to see an author's workroom as just a room! It is a mysterious port that he sets sail to the land of eternal dreams!”
“It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.”
“It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth”
“It is wrong to take an 18-year-old boy or girl and arm them with machine guns and make them the almighty king of some little Arab village. No young man, and no old man either, should have so much power over the life and death of so many helpless individuals. It is corrupting. It sometimes provokes desperate, savage and indiscriminate violence among the occupied.”
“It is wrong to take half or more of what people earn; wrong to force some people to pay for the support of others, threatening them with jail if they refuse (are in "noncompliance").”
“It is wrong to think of marriage as a hyped bondage. You can marry and still be happy. Everything rests on who you are married to. Marriage is a beautiful thing.”
Source: The Infinity Sign
“It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.”
Source: All Life is Problem Solving
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.”
“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.”
“It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.”
“It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.”
Source: Herzog
“It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.”
“It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.”
Source: Letter from Birmingham Jail
“It is wrong to use statements such as “there is no south of the South Pole” as proof that there is nothing beyond the point when time stops. Such statements may sound seductive, but they are not scientific, nor do they prove what they try to prove.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.”
“It is years since I knew such peace, perhaps twenty or thirty years; or perhaps it was in a previous life. Whenever it was, I must surely have tasted before now this peace that I feel as I walk around in ecstasies, humming to myself, caring for every stone and every straw, and sensing that they care for me once more. We are friends.”
Source: The wanderer
“It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.”
“It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“It is yet to be as curtained what is more advantageous, to be poor and happy or to be materially wealthy and miserable”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations
“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.”
Source: Trout on a fly
“It is you humans who hate anything that differs from you, be it only by the shape of its ears. That's why you took our land from us, drove us from our homes, forced us into the savage mountains.”
Source: The Last Wish