Readiness Quotes - Page 11

• But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Mistake, Source

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

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• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sacrifice, Judging

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Conflict, All Time

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.565, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Revenge, Virtue, Injury

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.513

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• Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Military, War, Mean

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• We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Space, Imagination, Cinema

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

  Margaret Deland

  Faith, Believe, Heart

  Margaret Deland (2015). “John Ward, Preacher”, p.427, The Floating Press

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• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

  Charles Dickens

  Reflection, Ideas, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1861). “All the Year Round”, p.436

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• I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Time, Children, War

  Speech at Obersalzberg, August 22, 1939.

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• The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, People, House

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.448, Modern Library

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• There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Special, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Government, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.17

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• Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Needs, Should

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• So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Night

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• Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Teach

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.57, CUP Archive

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