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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
by Barbara Amiel (Journalist, British , born in 1940) keywords: camps, cut, cutting, dictatorships, down, expedient, hands, harassment, labour, life, mention, off, sending, sexual, simple, their, trial , without Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
by Barry Commoner (Scientist, American , born in 1917) keywords: activity, drastically, economic, entering, environment, environmental, expedient, gasoline, grew, improved, lead, prevented, quality, removing, simple, which , while An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
by Joseph Conrad (Novelist, Polish , born in 1857) keywords: action, artist, complicated, creates, expedient, finds, invents, issue, man, personality, situation , whether The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
by Richard Dawkins (Scientist, English , born in 1941) keywords: blind, discouraging, expedient, faith, inquiry, meme, own, perpetuation, rational, secures, simple , unconscious If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
by Katharine Butler Hathawaykeywords: consequence, deepest, expedient, fear, following, instinct, life, prevent, safe, thin, will , your Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
by Aldo Leopold (Environmentalist, American , born in 1887) keywords: aesthetically, each, economically, ethically, examine, expedient, question, right, terms , well Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
by James Russell Lowell (Poet, American , born in 1819) keywords: almost, compromise, expedient, good, makes, often, party, politics, poor, roof, statesmanship, sure, temporary, umbrella, unwise , wise It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
by Jonathan Mayhew (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: according, administration, enjoy, every, expedient, good, government, happiness, his, law, liberty, live, other, our, prince, proper, ruling, satisfied, under, us , will It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
by Sandra Day O'Connor (Judge, American , born in 1930) topics: Politics keywords: amendment, compromise, constitution, embodied, expedient, fear, find, framers, itself, majority, measure, might, passing, these, values , were A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
by Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, American , born in 1970) topics: Politics keywords: america, call, democracy, else, enslave, expedient, free, freedom, government, him, individual, just, machine, make, man, means, only, poor, rich , system
