Indirect Quotes

106 quotes by 90 authors

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of… — Karl Marx
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions… — Corliss Lamont
All human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.… — Pope John Paul II
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi
In the 10 or so years since e-sourcing technology first made its way into grocers' procurement departments, the results secured have been remarkable: frequent double-digit… — Unknown Author
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same. — Anais Nin
My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself… — Salvador de Madariaga
The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has… — Carl David Anderson
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical… — F. F. Bruce
It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our… — Hosea Ballou
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of… — Murray Bookchin
The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of… — Henry Hazlitt
The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and… — Carroll Quigley
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Music is an indirect force for change — Unknown Author
We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the… — Walter Ciszek
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect… — Murong Xuecun
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth.… — Erica Jong

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