Best Unfit Quotations
117 Unfit quotes by 103 unique authors
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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for…
— Rachel Carson
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These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
— Rachel Carson
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Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature…
— Albert Einstein
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That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who…
— William Hazlitt
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Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
— Michael Gove
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
— Salvador Dali
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Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
— Eugene V. Debs
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid…
— Christopher Hitchens
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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we…
— Lysander Spooner
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
— George Washington
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To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is…
— James Whistler
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ruleāand both commonly succeed, and…
— H. L. Mencken
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The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm…
— Joseph Campbell
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
— Frederick Douglass
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What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age…
— Tony Kushner
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You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not…
— Rajneesh
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We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
— George MacDonald
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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I…
— Saint Augustine
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He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an…
— J M Coetzee
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It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.
— Rachel Cohn
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That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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