General Quotes

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

I tend to not really care for re-makes in general. Mainly they are horrible.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.