Unfit Quotes
117 quotes by 105 authors
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
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The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit…
— James Allen
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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
— Joseph Heller
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The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
— Anatole France
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting…
— Arthur Helps
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may…
— Walter Lippmann
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses:…
— Karl Popper
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
— James Madison
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Thou unfit for any place but hell.
— William Shakespeare
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read…
— Robertson Davies
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How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a…
— Gerald Heaney
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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is…
— Anthony Trollope
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These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive proofs…
— James Madison
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A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months…
— Robert Pattinson
Who Wrote These Unfit Quotes
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