Quotes on Doe

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful, more kind and considerate. Even more, we are to do this in a world which does little to encourage such qualities of character.

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.

When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort not to stop the mind in just one place - this is discipline. Not stopping the mind is object and essence. Put it nowhere and it will be everywhere. Even in moving the mind outside the body, if it is sent in one direction, it will be lacking in nine others. If the mind is not restricted to just one direction, it will be in all ten.

The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.