“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.” — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or… — Joseph Prestwich Copy Share Image
“Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit… — Charles Rosen Copy Share Image
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she… — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with… — Bob Filner Copy Share Image
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing… — Sophal Ear Copy Share Image
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful,… — Andreas Schleicher Copy Share Image
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you do battle, even if you are winning, if you continue for a long time it will dull your forces and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image