Best Liable Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.”

“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.”

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.”

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Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.”

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Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.”

Ifs Government Activity Criminals Liable American Government Accomplices

Author:Clive Stafford Smith

“An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.”

Self Artist Ego Faults Cruelty Self Centered Exhibits Liable Carelessness Callousness

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

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Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.”

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Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.”

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Book:Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers

“I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.”

Mind Reason Pain Loss Disease Late Skins Wounds Forgetfulness Liable

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.”

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Book:Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

“The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.”

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Author:Carroll Smith

“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.”

Source: The Art of Travel

“Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.”

“Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.”

Ifs Looks Matter Law Say Anything Liable

Book:The Piano Lesson

Source: The Piano Lesson

“There's a a right to privacy for all individuals and all who have legal rights - and that includes the unborn. As an obstetrician, if I cause any harm to a fetus, I will be sued. If someone kills or harms a fetus they're liable in a court of law.”

Ifs Law Individual Causes Rights Court Harm Privacy Unborn Liable Fetus Right To Privacy Legal Rights Obstetricians

Author:Ron Paul

“when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable”

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Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.”

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Book:Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism

Source: Poems: Pastoral poetry, and An essay on criticism

“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”

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Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.”

Thinking Form Disease Complexes Vulnerable Code Suggestions Liable Infectious Diseases

Author:Arthur Koestler

“It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.”

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Book:Writings

Source: Writings

“O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”

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Author:John Milton

“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.”

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Book:In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way

“We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.”

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Author:William Randolph Hearst

“It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion.”

Source: The Natural History of Religion: Revision of Great Book

“If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.”

“Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.”

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Book:The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

Source: The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt

“Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.”

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Author:Edward Bellamy

“It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.”

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Book:The Works of David Ricardo ...

Source: The Works of David Ricardo ...

“Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.”

Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“A philosopher ... is not fairly judged by his eccentricities, nor by the frailties to which he is liable; still less should his philosophy as a whole fall into ill-repute because of those among its devotees who have stumbled into wells, or who aimlessly pass their lives in whetting their faculties and then neglecting to use them.”

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Author:John Grier Hibben

“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.”

“Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.”

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Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.”

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Author:Frank Abagnale

“That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to be aware of its presents. What is behind us [the future] cannot be seen and is liable to be forgotten readily. What is ahead of us [the past] cannot be forgotten so readily or ignored, for it is in front of our minds' eyes, always reminding us of its presence. The past is alive in us, so in more than a metaphorical sense the dead are alive - we are our history.”

Mind Helping Eye Past Memories Behinds Alive Fronts Forgotten Conception Ignored Our Memories Reminding Liable Metaphorical

Author:Epeli Hau'ofa

“The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.”

Source: Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings

“By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.”

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Book:An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness

“When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.”

“Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.”

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Book:Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

Source: Thoughts on religion, and other subjects

“I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress.”

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Author:Marie Stopes

“When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.”

Mind Moments Desire Travel France Contemplating Liable Contemplative Morocco Importunate Labradors

Author:Agnes Repplier

“Integrity is the first step to true greatness.”

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Book:Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

Source: Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker

“Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.”

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Author:Hosea Ballou

“Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.”

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Author:Rufus Choate

“Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.”

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Book:The Twelfth Hour

Source: The Twelfth Hour

“The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.”

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Author:John Tillotson

“Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.”

Ifs Men Sleep Pleasure Source Morality Labor Innocent Forbidden Fountain Relaxation Maxims Recreation Intervals Liable Intemperance

Author:Orville Dewey

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