Cases Quotes - Page 20

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

Paul Ryan

Jobs, Thinking, Best Job

16 Copy quote
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.

Paul Ryan

Jobs, Pitfalls, Looks

"Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand's ideas: in the hot seat again". Speech at a 2005 Atlas Society event, atlassociety.org. April 30, 2012.

4 Copy quote

Show source
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country.

Rush Limbaugh

Country, Light, Punishment

4 Copy quote
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Wassily Kandinsky

Mother, Art, Children

Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

35 Copy quote

Show source
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

Warren Christopher

Lost Friendship, Awful, Close Friends

7 Copy quote
The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

George Ripley

Soul, Growth, May

George Ripley (1836). “Discourses on the philosophy of religion: addresses to doubters who wish to believe”, p.42

6 Copy quote

Show source
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Country, Writing, Simple

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983). “Novels”, p.854, Library of America

8 Copy quote

Show source
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in the fact that I derive satisfaction from seeking to reveal the concealed meaning of a position by means of maneuvering play and therefore I do not wish to see this satisfaction curtailed by a banal, more or less fortuitous decision. Naturally, this phenomenon is played out beneath the threshold of consciousness. The waking consciousness will, of course, in each individual case, give preference to the more rapid means of deciding the game.

Aron Nimzowitsch

Moving, Mean, Games

18 Copy quote
It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!

Mikhail Tal

Thinking, Squares, Games

148 Copy quote
Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does.

J. K. Rowling

Thinking, Bully, Trying

9 Copy quote
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.

Theodore Dreiser

Sunshine, Color, Desire

Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Financier”, p.95, Booklassic

7 Copy quote

Show source
It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.

Malcolm X

Real, Clouds, People

8 Copy quote
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

Antonin Scalia

Practice, Justice, Demand

1998 Copy quote
And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

Stephen Breyer

Thinking, Campaigns, Benches

14 Copy quote
You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment

Stephen Breyer

Judging, Office, Different

16 Copy quote
I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

Sonia Sotomayor

Mind, Open Mind

4 Copy quote
But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

John Paul Stevens

Thinking, Years, Numbers

9 Copy quote
If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

Harry A. Blackmun

Justice, United States, Court

10 Copy quote
FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.

Napoleon Hill

Spiritual, Prayer, Infinite Intelligence

Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.43, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

18 Copy quote

Show source
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

Napoleon Hill

People, Criticism, Desire

Napoleon Hill (2007). “Think And Grow Rich”, p.103, Lulu.com

5 Copy quote

Show source
I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already expressed publicly that he is not on this case.

Mark Geragos

Years, Attorney, Known

5 Copy quote
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.

Shaun Tan

Block, Inspiration, Thinking

12 Copy quote
I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

Oliver Stone

Thinking, People, Support

Twitter post from Apr 10, 2013

4 Copy quote

Show source
As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that he thought them near of kin. In cases of this sort, the possibility of kindred blood gives rise to surmises, or strong suspicions, of which no proof is attainable.

Timothy Pickering

Strong, Blood, Giving

8 Copy quote
In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.

Emile M. Cioran

Revenge, Men, Order

9 Copy quote

You May Also Like Quotes On:

Cold Case