General Quotes

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.