Unaccountable Quotes

47 quotes by 40 authors

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous… — Agnes Martin
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. — Mark Twain
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas,… — Noam Chomsky
If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced… — Sun Tzu
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world — H.G. Wells
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary… — David Korten
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an… — Ambrose Bierce
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left,… — Maurice Chevalier
Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something. — Salvatore Scibona
Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable. — Eldridge Cleaver
Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a… — Annette Crosbie
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their… — Jonathan Mayhew
For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the… — Loren Eiseley
Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word… — Noam Chomsky
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public… — Noam Chomsky
Quantitative easing is just the latest chapter in the Federal Reserveâ€™s hundred-year history of failure. (...) The American people have suffered long enough under a… — Ron Paul
The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of… — Dallas Willard

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