Demand Quotes - Page 24

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the supply of labourers compared with the demand.

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

Truth does not demand belief.

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.