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“The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.”

“Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.”

Law Spirit Names Freedom Liberty Moral Opposites Mere Notion Definite Harmonious Moral Law Vagueness Clearness

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

“Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.”

Men Way Political Asks Politics Vote Vagueness

Author:Bernard Levin

“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”

Doe Evil Enormous Vague Pretense Pious Pretension Vagueness Thelema

Author:Aleister Crowley

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”

“I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.”

Thinking Reading Conscious Rounds Satisfaction Generalities Vagueness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.”

People Ifs Enough Speak Chance Refuge Vague Precise Being Wrong Good Chance Vagueness

Author:J. L. Austin

“Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.”

Yellow Vagueness

Author:Alexander Theroux

“It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.”

People Ifs Writing Persons Made Self Enough Use Easy Christ Mystery Ready Comfortable Intellectual Climate Bounds Contemporary One Time Vacuums God Is Love Unbelievers Synonym Vagueness

Author:Christian Wiman

“An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Pain Artist Suffering Order Blood Communicate Extremes Emptiness Intensity Excess Fascinated Sensibility Vagueness

Author:Sebastian Horsley

“Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.”

Pages Errors Marketing Noise Ambiguity Misuse Jargon Vagueness Redundancy

Author:William Zinsser

“As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .”

Art Self Moments Lying Values Loses Situation Creative Our Lives Particular Expression Available Contact Encounters Self Expression Vagueness

Book:Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way

Source: Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way

“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.”

Writing Art Speak Struggle Involved Sentences Adjectives Speak English Encroachment Vagueness

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.”

Spirit Comfort Procrastination Frail Vagueness

Book:In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel

Source: In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Novel

“We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.”

World Law Views Clear Doubt Broken Letters Sections Invaluable Administrative Business World Vagueness

Book:The Control of Trusts

Source: The Control of Trusts

“No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.”

Writing Firsts Lasts Purpose Seeing Clouds Steady Good Writing Blur Lucidity Vagueness

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

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