Confusion Quotes - Page 10

• Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

  Molly Ivins

  Democracy, Certain, Neat

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• A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

  John Adams

  Men, Law, Hunger And Poverty

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.304, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.

  Bob Marley

  House, Significant

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers.

  William B. Travis

  Brother, Thinking, Texas

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• God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

  C. J. Anderson

  Religious, Reality, Chaos

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• I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.

  Michael Emerson

  Fall, Mean, Frustration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Broken, Diversity

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• A lot of people are very frustrated. On the outside I am a woman, but how much am I also a man inside? And how much is the man that I meet actually a woman inside? The transsexual is a symbol for the confusion all of us in the Western world feel about this right now.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Men, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Two, World, Lasts

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan, Wystan Hugh Auden (1971). “The sorrows of young Werther, and Novella”

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• Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.

  Christina Baldwin

  Forgiveness, Pain, Mistake

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• Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.

  Nita Leland

  Exercise, People, Creative

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.14, North Light Books

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• If somebody responds positively to what I'm doing - if there is a connection - that can be very meaningful. If someone reacts with displeasure, confusion, hostility, well, that is not pleasant, and can often be upsetting.

  Michael Hersch

  Meaningful, Often Is, Upset

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy, Character, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• [...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond permanently with a member of the opposite sex and (usually) establish a family. The main symptom of this disorder is the pursuit of impersonal sex for its own sake (i.e. promiscuity).

  Henry Makow

  Sex, Opposites, Identity

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• Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

  Sun Tzu

  Order, Weakness, Cowardice

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't like no confusion.

  John Hurt

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• The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

  William James

  Baby, Eye, Skins

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.13.

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• The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.

  Billy Graham

  Phases, Passing, Symptoms

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• Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.

  Michael Emerson

  Pain, People, Church

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

  Casey Spooner

  Confusing, Difficult, Positive Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying to sustain diversity without knowing exactly what it's doing.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Sex, War, Knowing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Names, Sometimes

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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• Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Legalist ones, traditional ones and revolutionary ones. Some of them are revolutionary but are non-violent, others are extremely violent. There are also the ones we call the literalists, like the Egyptian party Hizb al-Nour that used to be against democracy and now is getting into the political game.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Party, Games, People

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories.

  Tariq Ramadan

  People, Political, Different

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.

  Mike DeWine

  Law, Judging, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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