One Cannot Quotes

515 quotes by 387 authors

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders… — Ivan Krastev
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility. — Max Weber
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of… — Emile Durkheim
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from… — Noam Chomsky
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church. — David Novak
I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the… — Antony Beevor
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component… — Patrick White
One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism. — Evita Peron
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. — Anne Spencer
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined… — Bainbridge Colby
One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns. — Len G. Murray
There are no Rabbits in the north-west. This statement, far from final, is practically true today, but I saw plenty of Lynxes, and one cannot… — Ernest Thompson Seton
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. — Rene Descartes
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. — Nikita Khrushchev
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. — Athanasius
I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this… — Blake Mycoskie
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world — Eleanor Roosevelt
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on… — Jane Austen
One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time. — Gioacchino Rossini

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