Neglect Quotes - Page 5

• Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Development, Systematic

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.3, Anchor

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• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fighting, People, Selfishness

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• Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Coward, Excuse, Accomplish

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• It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

  Mary Stewart

  Doe, May, Ends

  Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

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• We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, America, Training

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• The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

  Benjamin Carson

  Prayer, Blood, Mind

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• It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

  Marguerite Duras

  Women, Ideas, No Idea

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.51, Grove Press

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• Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Eugenics, Rocks

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.109, Elsevier

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• Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Doe, Repetition, Duty

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• I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Benefits, General Welfare

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

  Noah Webster

  Selfish, Men, Rights

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• We have seen so many exhibits in recent years where the exhibition design was aesthetically beautiful. In this case, if someone wants to get something out of the exhibit, they must neglect the aesthetics and look at my pictures.

  Georg Baselitz

  Beautiful, Design

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• Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Confidence, Loving Life

  1598-9 Dauphin, to King Charles. HenryV, act 2, sc.4, l.73-4.

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• When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Rights, Self

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• So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding creation that is irreligious.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Thinking, Study

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.51

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• And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Wall, Taken

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'

  Gabriela Mistral

  Children, Errors, Blood

  "His Name is Today". Poem by Gabriela Mistral, mid 1900s.

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• To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Grieving, Silence

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• And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Order, Tragedy, Important

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• No one should be ashamed to speak up. Shame makes it easy for neglect and abuse and bullying to stay huddled together in their dark corner. It’s time to throw the switch on this spotlight. If I can inspire other kids to speak their truth, then everything I’ve been through will have been worth it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Bullying, Kids, Dark

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.121, Penguin

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• When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving, Habit, Young

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States (1903). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

  Takeda Shingen

  Loyalty, Military, Mean

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• The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

  Hasan of Basra

  Forgiveness, Wisdom, Islamic

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