Inherently Quotes

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

We're not inherently anything but human.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Inherently, department stores have significant advantages compared to all other retailers.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.