Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 4330.
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It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
Public Affairs (1971) -
It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983 -
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
Americana (1989) -
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
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It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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