Indiscriminate Quotes
55 Indiscriminate quotes by 48 unique authors
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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are…
— George Washington
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We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out…
— Eleanor Brown
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The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.
— Moses Hadas
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We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has…
— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
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These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and…
— Winston Churchill
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
— Al Franken
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Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
— Sheikh Hasina
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The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
— Herbert Hoover
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards…
— George Orwell
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You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
— James Surowiecki
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We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in…
— Howard Zinn
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My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no…
— Frank O'Hara
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He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.
— Peter Kropotkin
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All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the…
— Michael Cunningham
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
— Christopher Hitchens
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We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant…
— Rick Yancey
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Love is one of the most intense feelings felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but…
— Robert Wright
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Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban…
— Teju Cole
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles…
— Ted Danson
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