Indefinite Quotes

83 Indefinite quotes by 72 unique authors

What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the… — Emma Goldman
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. — Arthur Conan Doyle
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no… — Tony Judt
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. — Susan Sontag
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. — Herbert Spencer
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation… — Herbert Spencer
Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public health,' 'public good,' 'public welfare,' and the like. It… — Lysander Spooner
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,… — C.S. Lewis
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil… — Truman Capote
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than… — Herman Melville
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not… — Henry David Thoreau
But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of… — George Eliot
The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It… — Simone de Beauvoir
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -… — Henry David Thoreau
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The… — Charlotte Bronte
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I… — Aldous Huxley
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their… — Confucius
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings — Immanuel Kant
There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. — Karl Popper
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might… — Bertrand Russell
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a… — James Madison
What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human… — Glenn Greenwald

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