Commits Quotes

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato

Injustice, Wretched, Suffers

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clever, Blunders, Minor

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Great, May, Free

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas Huxley

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn

Passion, Reason, Mob

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
Brian Tracy

Real, Person, Career

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran

Progress, Injustice, Generation

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Edward Dahlberg

Life, Either, Worthless

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
Feisal Abdul Rauf

Everyone, Anyone, Terrorism

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
Russell Baker

After, Group, Public

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound

Truth, Before, Point

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Stefan Zweig

Free, Earth, Spirit

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
Park Chan-wook

Person, After, Cannot

If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
Ayatollah Khomeini

May, Become, Possible

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
Benjamin Tucker

Society, Punishment, Capital

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan

Another, Against, Group

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
Henri Barbusse

Fight, Two, Army

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
John Shadegg

Someone, Law, Same

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.
Emile Lahoud

Two, After, High

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
Steven Bochco

Good, Writing, Problems

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.
Ron Suskind

Bad, Someone, Sometimes

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
Forest Whitaker

Dreams, Heart, Happen

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