All Quotes

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
‐‐ James Madison

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
‐‐ Van Wyck Brooks

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
‐‐ Jakob Bohme

If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.
‐‐ David Shuster

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
‐‐ Phil Collins

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?
‐‐ Ruzwana Bashir

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
‐‐ Harold Pinter

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
‐‐ Brian Moore

If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.
‐‐ Stephanie Cutter

If Mitt Romney defeats President Obama in his bid for reelection on Tuesday, it will mark the success of one of the most deeply cynical political campaigns in American history. It is hard to beat an incumbent no matter the economic climate.
‐‐ Juan Williams

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
‐‐ Sarah Fielding

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
‐‐ Daniel Ellsberg

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
‐‐ John Hope

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
‐‐ Placido Domingo

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
‐‐ Felix Feneon

If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
‐‐ J. R. R. Tolkien

If more people got involved with their local schools, if more companies donated money, a lot of the problems that are plaguing our schools and our youth would disappear.
‐‐ Kevin Frazier

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.
‐‐ Mary Badham

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.
‐‐ Claude Pepper

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
‐‐ Sheryl Sandberg

If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
‐‐ Roberta Williams

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
‐‐ Isaac Bashevis Singer

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
‐‐ Charles Morgan

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
‐‐ Friedrich August von Hayek

If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.
‐‐ Nancy Lublin

If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.
‐‐ Michael Shannon

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
‐‐ Jack Valenti

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
‐‐ Griffin Dunne