Incidental Quotes

55 quotes by 53 authors

Justice is incidental to law and order. — J. Edgar Hoover
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital. — Nachman of Breslov
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. — H.G. Wells
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the… — Noam Chomsky
The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty.… — Teri Hatcher
Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the… — Ann Coulter
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
The artistâ€™s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist. — Sol LeWitt
Relationships between men and women are only about sex. The rest of the sh*t is incidental. — Chad Kultgen
In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the… — Ludwig von Mises
We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes… — Ossie Davis
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental… — Edward Sapir
Drone strikes, Albert Camus would argue, are not just meant to kill. They are programmed to terrorize. In this regard, whether the missile strikes its… — Jeffrey St. Clair
The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand… — Herbert Spencer
Youâ€™re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the… — Donald Judd
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect… — C L R James
Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but… — Luigi Cornaro
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are… — Kenny Smith
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. — Stephen Metcalf

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