Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He… — Benjamin Tucker
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is… — Benjamin Tucker
Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial… — Murray Rothbard
Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. Â It is… — Ramana Maharshi
When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force. — Ayn Rand
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or… — Ayn Rand
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one… — Erving Goffman
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means. — Georg Simmel
There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace. — Paul Washer
The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they… — William Gurnall
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Â Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Â Ideally, we would be nurtured… — Julia Cameron
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.’ Here… — George Frederic Watts
How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the… — George Crabbe
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. — Fidel Castro
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to… — Norman Finkelstein
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but… — Francis Crick
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. — Robert Graves
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. — Augusto Roa Bastos
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few… — David Herbert Donald
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.… — Murray Bookchin
For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some… — Anthony Braxton
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital… — Jonathan Ive
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other… — H. L. Mencken
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the… — Unknown Author

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