Constraints Quote by William Cowper Download Open image “All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.” — William Cowper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Constraints Evil Evil man Evil Men Inspirational Lays Men Wisdom
“The very concept of evil challenges the wisdom of God because He would never create anything that is not desirable or not needed. Everything… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good… — John Milton Copy Share Image
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I have seen that man’s capacity for evil has no limit, just as man’s genius is not limited to reaching new heights in every… — Alter Wiener Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die but then… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...)… — Ermanno Bencivenga Copy Share Image
The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams. — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
