Inconvenient Quotes

• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Freedom, Government, Doe

  International Society for Krishna Consciousness v. Lee, 505 U.S. 672, caselaw.lp.findlaw.com. June 26, 1992.

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• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Literature, Doe

  "Dictionary of Foreign Quotations" by Mary Collison, p. 235, 1980.

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• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honor, Duty, Dangerous

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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• President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Loss, President

  "It's All About the Jobs". Mitt Romney's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2011.

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• Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Parent, Generations

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Trying, Ifs

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

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• It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that.  But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

  Al Gore

  Wish, Dots, Human Nature

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• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  Upton Sinclair

  Wisdom, Men, People

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Believe, Want

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• People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

  David Adam

  Creativity, Anchors, Sea

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• It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Black, Disgrace

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for 'yes,' and mew for 'no,; or any rule of that sort," she had said, "so that one could keep up a conversation! But how can you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?

  Lewis Carroll

  Habit, Kitten, Made

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 12: Which Dreamed it?, 1871.

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• Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Guilt, Spy, President

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• No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.

  Michele Bachmann

  Party, Perfect, Pro Life

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• It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

  Lewis Carroll

  Cat, Habit, Kitten

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hurt, Sensual, Elation

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.90, Random House

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• I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Heart, Giving, Might

  Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.19, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Forever, Geography, Lost

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.349, Random House

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• Poetry had in the hands of various people become a place for inconvenient knowledge insofar as it was a place for knowledge at all. But it was a place where you could talk about other kinds of experience than the official version.

  Robert Hass

  Hands, People, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

  Barack Obama

  Norm, International

  Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

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• Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Pain, Our Society, Manipulation

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.70, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

  Terry Bozzio

  Fame, Money And Fame

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

  Milton Berle

  Poverty, Disgrace

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