The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be…

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what…

— Joe Frank

It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important…

— Noah Webster

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors…

— J. C. Ryle

Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with…

— Michael Gurian

Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities…

— Albert Bandura

there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if…

— Jacquetta Hawkes

I forgot the defective can be more than the whole

— Thomas Hardy

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

— Margaret Sanger

The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the…

— Louis O. Kelso

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

— Thomas Nagel

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

— William Penn

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

— Barry Goldwater

If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the…

— Peter Singer