Dispense Quotes

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.