Commit Quotes - Page 35

• New York is like that perfect lover that just won't commit but he's so good that you hang around anyway, NYC is dreamy!

  Bevy Smith

  New York, Nyc, Perfect

  7 Copy quote

• Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.

  Art Buchwald

  Suicide, Two, Mind

  Art Buchwald (2006). “Too Soon to Say Goodbye”, p.37, Random House

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.

  Albert J. Nock

  Self, Sake, Firsts

  "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Giving Up, Relatives And Friends, Safety

  4 Copy quote

• But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

  Timothy Keller

  Commitment, Self Righteous, Committed Relationship

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.

  A.C. Grayling

  Rights, Liberty, Different

  A.C. Grayling (2007). “Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World”, Walker

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Courage, Generosity, Effort

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.2584, Catholic Way Publishing

  191 Copy quote

  Show source

• Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

  Henry Adams

  Indulge In, Laughing, Society

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1505, Open Road Media

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

  Muhammad Ali

  Faults, Sin

  7 Copy quote

• Commit no act that is contrary to love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Contrary

  4 Copy quote

• Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Exercise, Men, Vices

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No sane society chooses to commit national suicide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Suicide, Sane

  28 Copy quote

• Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

  Walter Lippmann

  Suicide, Rights, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.59, Harvard University Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Safety, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.70

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

  George Carlin

  Suicide, Ifs

  "George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2005.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

  Margaret Mead

  Cutting, Science, Giving

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

  Robert Breault

  Sin, Hell, Moments

  11 Copy quote

• I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Action, Social, Robbing

  12 Copy quote

• Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and desires, but has to develop first a marked attitude of compassion. He should commit himself firmly to the willingness to take the effort to save every living creature.

  Sun Simiao

  Attitude, Compassion, Giving

  44 Copy quote

• People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.

  Michael Newdow

  People, One Day, Liberty

  4 Copy quote

• It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Praise, Admirer, Provoking

  9 Copy quote

• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  War, Men, Ill Will

  4 Copy quote

• Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Rights, Law

  William Blackstone (1922). “Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books”, p.45, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Men, Crime, Scruples

  4 Copy quote