Committing Quotes - page 7

When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible. (Ricky Martin)
He cannot be coerced into political combination without a breach of the law of equal freedom; he can withdraw from it without committing any such breach; and he has therefore a right so to withdraw. View quote
Herbert Spencer
It is fashionable always to cast aspersion upon those that defend persons accused of committing crimes. The viler the accused crime, the more vigorous defense the accused needs, yet, at the same time, the more vitriol the defense attorney will face. I cannot speak for my brethren in the legal community, I can only state that what follows my own brand of patriotism; I defend those charged with crimes because it is both my duty as a lawyer and as an American. Each piece of resistance to the encroachment of overreaching governmental power is, and of itself, a victory for freedom. View quote
Jay Leiderman
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you. View quote
Ana Castillo
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible. View quote
Vin Diesel
It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder. View quote
Nancy Reagan
The soldiers who are accused of committing these atrocities are, of course, responsible for their own actions and if found guilty, must be severely and appropriately punished. But they are not the ones primarily responsible for the disgrace that has been brought upon the United States of America. (Al Gore)
Contrast force and morality with each other. How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. View quote
Auberon Herbert
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. View quote
Lauryn Hill
If people are capable of committing evil deeds, then the people occupying the offices of government will be cut from the same cloth. They are evildoers, too. There is not a single shred of evidence that they will be otherwise. View quote
Robert LeFevre
If men are capable of committing evil actions, granting them power over others makes evil actions certain. But there is a difference. When men in government commit and evil act, they are legally shielded from their consequences of the act. View quote
Robert LeFevre
Liberalism is not being killed by dictators. Liberalism is committing suicide-out of despair and a bad conscience. What liberalism needs is a revival, in the evangelical sense of the word. It needs to admit its sins, as the basis of renewing its life. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name. View quote
Leigh Brackett
Many people think that conservation is just about saving fluffy animals – what they don't realise is that we're trying to prevent the human race from committing suicide ... We have declared war on the biological world, the world that supports us ... At the moment the human race is in the position of a man sawing off the tree branch he is sitting on. View quote
Gerald Durrell
The conscience is a dilemma for the believer in evolution. He doesn't know why it exists. Neither do the experts. Why would evolution create something that tells us that it's wrong to lie, to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery? Was primitive man committing these sins before he evolved a conscience? If he wasn't, why didn't his conscience evolve? If he was, why did the conscience evolve? View quote
Ray Comfort
It is literally crazy to be committing to an ETS (emissions trading scheme) before seeing the outcome of Copenhagen . . . and frankly idiotic before we see the final form of the US emissions trading scheme. (Nick Minchin)
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy. View quote
Francis Collins
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Committing yourself to one person is sacred. View quote
Natalie Portman
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty. View quote
Matt Taibbi