Indirect Quotes

106 quotes by 92 authors

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot… — Albert Camus
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion. — Thomas Browne
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection… — George Santayana
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the… — Louis Pasteur
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. — Rene Dubos
Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort… — Charles Tilly
Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is… — Rajneesh
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. — Emmet Fox
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are… — A. V. Dicey
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis… — Andre-Marie Ampere
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come… — Victor Hugo
There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.... — Morris K. Jessup
I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons… — Albert Einstein
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law.… — Howard Zinn
Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either… — John Wayne
I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desertâ€”under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect… — Ellen Meloy
There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through… — J M Coetzee

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