Deliberate Quotes

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln

Decisions, Themselves, Reverse

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Truth, Enemy

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau

Whether, Might, Concerning

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers

Faith, Time, God

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Time, Thinking, Action

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret Thatcher

Sometimes, Tell, Lies

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde

Nothing, Afraid

Deliberate Quote

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian

Late, Begin, Grows

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov

Nature, Someone, Human

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
Richard Dawkins

Time, Science, Ignorance

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
Pope John Paul II

Humanity, Through, Choice

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson

Time, Thinking, Action

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

War, Country, Against

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus

Fire, Violence, Quenched

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace

Truth, American, Fact

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.
Jimmy Carter

Again, Effort, Actually

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
Marco Rubio

Government, Country, Effort

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis

Ignorance, Stupidity

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
Madeleine L'Engle

Work, Great, Art

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
Hugh Mackay

Change, Feeling, Enough

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.
Tony Dorsett

Family, Respect, Around

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.
Jonathan Safran Foer

School, Wife, Feeling

9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.
Michelle Malkin

Religion, War, Allah

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Science, May, Control

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett

Strange, Opinion, Jolly

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
James K. Polk

Good, God, Together

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.
Stockwell Day

Change, Long, Thinking

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.
Eric Alterman

Nation, Deception, President

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
Jeff Goodell

Change, Earth, Nightmare

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Georges Bataille

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