Desirable Quotes - Page 11

• Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

  Richard Stallman

  Believe, Helping, Computer

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• One is more desirable when loved, not feared.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Love

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• The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.

  Paul Popenoe

  Education, Country, Children

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• Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Distance, Desire, Might

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• If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Failure, Math

  Quoted in J. W. N. Sullivan, Contemporary Mind (1934)

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Danger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

  Henry Manne

  Block, Law, Competition

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• Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Real, Two, Tools

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• The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the flow - a very alive, productive, and desirable state.

  Shakti Gawain

  Successful, People, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.276, Mango Media Inc.

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• We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You will recollect that, at the first meeting of the Board of Directors, I took the ground that 'it was our policy to make the office of operator desirable, to pay operators well and make their situation so agreeable that intelligent men and men of character will seek the place and dread to lose it.' I still think so, and, depend upon it, it is the soundest economy to act on this principle.

  Samuel Morse

  Taken, Character, Science

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• The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.

  Christian D. Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mind

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.283, Penguin

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• Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

  Richard Dawkins

  Differences, People, Needs

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The consumption of alcohol is increasing among youth. Targeting young audiences, advertisers portray beer and wine as joyful, socially desirable, and harmless. Producers are promoting new types of alcoholic beverages as competitors in the huge soft-drink market. Grocery and convenience stores and gas stations stock alcoholic beverages side by side with soda pop. Can Christians who are involved in this commerce be indifferent to the physical and moral effects of the alcohol from which they are making their profits?

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Christian, Wine, Beer

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• To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Enemy, Conquer

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• PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Music, Body, Action

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.170, 谷月社

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• Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

  Cedric Price

  Opportunity, Should Have, Littles

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• I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle degree of instruction, calculated for the common purposes of life and such as should be desirable for all who were in easy circumstances. And 3d. an ultimate grade for teaching the sciences generally and in their highest degree... The expenses of [the elementary] schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Teaching, School

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• We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision

  Sarah Weddington

  Pregnancy, Abortion, Decision

  Sarah Weddington (2013). “A Question of Choice: Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I see being a woman in the world as a social problem. That's very urgently problematic in terms of it still being a man's world, and women's identities still being shaped by the way men look at them, and the way men can control what kinds of opportunities they can get based on how desirable the men find them, or how compliant. I don't think that's really changed a lot.

  Anna Biller

  Men, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

  Dorothy Parker

  Innocence, Ridiculous, Behavior

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.25, Penguin

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• The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Political, Reform, Negative

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, People, Community

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

  Lionel Trilling

  Reality, Class, Differences

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.262, New York Review of Books

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• Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, People, Would Be

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• We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

  John D. MacDonald

  Imagination, World, Environment

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