Sentence Quotes - page 12

It is a gross contradiction to suppose that the constitution might preside over this new order of things; that would be to assume it had itself survived. What are the laws that replace it? Those of nature, the one which is the foundation of society itself: the salvation of the people. The right to punish the tyrant and the right to dethrone him are the same thing; both include the same forms. The tyrant's trial is the insurrection; the verdict, the collapse of his power; the sentence, whatever the liberty of the people requires. (Maximilien Robespierre)
"They say that a military confrontation with Iran would undermine the efforts already underway, that it would be ineffective, and that it would provoke even more vindictive action by Iran. I've heard these arguments before. In fact, I've read them before. In my desk, I have copies of an exchange of letters between the World Jewish Congress and the US War Department. The year was 1944. The World Jewish Congress implored the American government to bomb Auschwitz. The reply came five days later. I want to read it to you: "Such an operation could be executed only by diverting considerable air support essential to the success of our forces elsewhere... and in any case would be of such doubtful efficacy that it would not warrant the use of our resources”... And here's the most remarkable sentence of all. And I quote: "Such an effort might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.” Think about that – "even more vindictive action”. View quote
Benjamin Netanyahu
When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape. View quote
Louise Erdrich
Instead of insanity eliminating the crime according to the original meaning of article 64, every crime and even every offense now carries within it, as a legitimate suspicion, but also as a right that may be claimed, the hypothesis of insanity, in any case of anomaly. And the sentence that condemns or acquits is not simply a judgement of guily, a legal decision that lays down punishment; it bears within it an assessment of normality and a technical prescription for a possible normalization Today the judge- magistrate or juror0 certainly does more than 'judge. View quote
Michel Foucault
The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism. View quote
Richard Dawkins
All of us can be influenced through psychological techniques. For example, if I say "don't think of a black cat” what do you do? You think of a black cat because the command ‘think of a black cat' was there in the sentence. Techniques like this can be used to influence people's thoughts, behaviour, even their memory. View quote
Derren Brown
Again, it is a new doctrine of constitutional law that one indicted for disobedience to an unconstitutional statute may not defend on the ground of the invalidity of the statute, but must obey it though he knows it is no law, and, after he has suffered the disgrace of conviction and lost his liberty by sentence, then, and not before, seek, from within prison walls, to test the validity of the law. View quote
Hugo Black
Bad men, like good men, are entitled to be tried and sentenced in accordance with law, and when it is shown to us that a person is serving an illegal sentence our obligation is to direct that proper steps be taken to correct the wrong done, without regard to the character of a particular defendant or to the possible effect on others who might also want to challenge the legality of their sentences as they have the right to do 'at any time' under Rule 35. If it has any relevance at all, the fact that there may be other prisoners in this country's jails serving illegal sentences would seem to me to make it all the more imperative that we grant appropriate relief in this case rather than search for some obviously dubious excuse to deny this petitioner's claim. View quote
Hugo Black
I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presence. View quote
Terry Pratchett
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I told you once that in those terms I would be considered as Ruburt's number 6 or 7 self. You had better change Ruburt to Jane in that sentence. Ruburt then, would be considered Jane's third self in approximate terms. In the analogy these future selves would dwell in other dimensions, and usually self one, or Jane, would be relatively unaware of their, existence or knowledge. In this case self one is able to make such contacts however. (Robert Butts)
Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you. View quote
Nicole Krauss
A minister says to me that I am going to hell-that I am bound to be punished forever and ever-and thereupon I say to him: "There is no hell you are mistaken; your Bible is not inspired; no human being is to suffer agony forever;” and thereupon, with an injured look, he asks me this question: "Why do you hurt my feelings?” It does not occur to him that I have the slightest right to object to his sentence of eternal grief. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, enjoying my dying agony in imagination, says: "Let the world wait but for a few years at the most, when Death's icy fingers feel for the heartstrings of the boaster, and, as most of his like who have gone before him have done, he will sing another strain.” How shall I characterize the spirit that could prompt the writing of such a sentence? The reverend gentleman "loves his enemies,” and yet he is filled with glee when he thinks of the agonies I shall endure when Death's icy fingers feel for the strings of my heart! Yet I have done him no harm. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much. View quote
Colm Tóibín
The bridge remained as if under sentence of death, but none the less still whole and untouched, between the two warring sides. View quote
Ivo Andrić
"Auschwitz cannot be explained." And yet, it doesn't take a Wittgenstein to notice that the sentence is faulty even from the point of pure linguistic logic. View quote
Imre Kertész
The sentence "Auschwitz cannot be explained" is faulty simply from a formal point of view, for anything that is has an explanation, even if by necessity a merely self-serving faulty, so so explanation. View quote
Imre Kertész
By way of that wretched sentence "Auschwitz cannot be explained" is the wretched author explaining that we should be silent concerning Auschwitz, that Auschwitz doesn't exist, or, rather, that it didn't, for the only facts that cannot be explained are those that don't or didn't exist. View quote
Imre Kertész
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. View quote
Amy Hempel
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote. View quote
Martin Heidegger
"Muhammad of Arabia ascended the highest Heaven and returned. I swear by God that if I had reached that point, I should never have returned." These are the words of a great Muslim saint, 'AbdulQuddës of Gangoh. In the whole range of Sufi literature it will be probably difficult to find words which, in a single sentence, disclose such an acute perception of the psychological difference between the prophetic and the mystic types of consciousness. The mystic does not wish to return from the repose of "unitary experience"; and even when he does return, as he must, his return does not mean much for mankind at large. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me. View quote
Louis Farrakhan