Conceivable Quotes

122 Conceivable quotes by 110 unique authors

Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from… — Ron Paul
We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable,… — Steven Pinker
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of… — St. Jerome
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six… — Adolf Hitler
[T]he sprawl of government into every conceivable realm of life has caused the withering of traditional institutions. Fathers become unnecessary if the government provides Aid… — Mona Charen
All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done. — Thomas Sowell
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and… — Alan Watts
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from… — William Graham Sumner
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War… — H.G. Wells
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them. — Steven Morrissey
A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice… — Gordon Tullock
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every… — Graydon Carter
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished… — H. L. Mencken
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable… — Graham Nelson
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it… — George Scratchley Brown
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since… — Anthony Powell
Personal prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simplest necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food and water-and at… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as… — Albert Einstein
[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Finding the right form of debate regarding Israeli policies will remain a challenge in Germany. Even with every conceivable and warranted criticism, the danger always… — Sigmar Gabriel
Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain.… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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