N Quotes
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“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley
“No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.”
“No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.”
Source: War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1917-1918
“No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.”
“No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“No democratic government should ever assume that arguments for democracy or for the rule of law are somehow obvious or self-evident. Authoritarian narratives are designed to undermine the innate appeal of those ideas, to characterize dictatorship as stable and democracy as chaotic. Democratic media, civic organizations, and politicians need to argue back and make the case for transparency, accountability, and liberty--at home and around the world.”
Source: Autocracy, Inc.
“No democratic world will work as it should work until we recognize that we can only enjoy any right so long as we are prepared to discharge its equivalent duty. This applies just as much to states in their dealing with one another as to individuals within the states.”
“No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.”
“No des tu amor a cerdos, ni a quienes solo buscan placer. El cerdo disfruta del fango, y tu esencia nunca podrá ver.”
Source: Pensé que no existía: EL AMOR
“No desafio de repensar as categorias do gênero fora da metafísica da substância, é mister considerar a relevância da afirmação de Nietzsche, em Genealogia da Moral, de que “não há ‘ser’ por trás do fazer, do realizar e do tornar-se; o ‘fazedor’ é uma mera ficção acrescentada à obra — a obra é tudo”. Numa aplicação que o próprio Nietzsche não teria antecipado ou aprovado, nós afirmaríamos como corolário: não há identidade de gênero por trás das expressões do gênero; essa identidade é performativamente constituída, pelas próprias “expressões” tidas como seus resultados.”
“No desea que los hombres la consideren hermosa. Tal cosa sólo conduce a la infelicidad. Tampoco espera la admiración de otras mujeres; de ellas sólo espera una indiferencia cortés y un cotilleo rencoroso a sus espaldas.”
Source: The Crimson Petal and the White
“No deseas vivir, pero la muerte te intimida.”
Source: Diotimia
“No desees la desgracia de los demás, desea a cambio para ti y para los tuyos el bienestar. Deja que la vida vaya ajustando cuentas por sí misma y preocúpate solo de gozar tu vida y nada más.”
“No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.”
“No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood”
“No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.”
“No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion.”
“No desolation equal to that of the pagan, suddenly bereft. For to the pagan, there is no hereafter.”
Source: Waltz into Darkness
“No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.”
Source: Woman and the New Race
“No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.”
“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and the common.”
Source: The Bees Road
“No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.”
“No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.”
Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts
“No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.”
“No dia que for possível à mulher amar em sua força e não em sua fraqueza, não para fugir de si mesma, mas para se encontrar, não para se renunciar, mas para se afirmar, nesse dia o amor tornar-se-á para ela, como para o homem, fonte de vida e não perigo mortal.”
“No dictator has a healthy mind because only a sick mind can be a dictator!”
“No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.”
“No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.”
“No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.”
“No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.”
“No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.”
“No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.”
Source: Emily's House
“No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!”
“No differences exist, as equals remain, the novice and the masters who practice the art of dance.”
“No dig protects the hidden biological networks that strong harvests depend on.”
Source: Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
“No dignity without distance.”
“No… - dijo sir Lanzarote–, pues una vez caído en la vergüenza quizá no vuelva a recobrarse.”
Source: The Ill-Made Knight
“No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.”
“No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.”
“No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.”
“No dirty work is too dirty for the one who loves living in dirt, and enjoys wallowing in it like a turtle in the ocean”
Source: Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny
“No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.”
“No disapproving voices haunted his vision, nor were any angry faces shaking their heads at his shame. Jo believed he was dying, but a weary smile played across his face.”
Source: The Last Archer
“No disaster is worse than being discontented.”
“No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.”
Source: The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750
“No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.”
Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country.”
“No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.”
Source: The letters of Lewis Carroll
“No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.”
Source: Sabrina Jeffries - The School for Heiresses Series: Never Seduce a Scoundrel, Only a Duke Will Do, Beware a Scot's Revenge and an excerpt from To Wed a Wild Lord