All Quotes

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
‐‐ Malcolm Wallop

The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

The concept of multiculturalism is difficult to make fit with a democratic society.
‐‐ Helmut Schmidt

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
‐‐ Arthur Goldberg

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.
‐‐ Leon Bourgeois

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.
‐‐ Sarah Harrison

The concept of psychic energy is easy for most people to imagine. After all, it's just one step beyond intuition - and almost everyone is comfortable with the idea of intuition.
‐‐ Jayne Ann Krentz

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
‐‐ Edward Levi

The concept of Red was to build a camera with as much capability as possible... for the professional market. Then we thought we could extend it down a bit to the prosumer level. Apparently, that was a mistake.
‐‐ James Jannard

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
‐‐ Kate Millett

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.
‐‐ Akira Suzuki

The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.
‐‐ Richard Paul Evans

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.
‐‐ Hasan M. Elahi

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
‐‐ Bo Bennett

The concept of the megachurch - some have attributed that to me. Whatever people want to buy, they can get it in the shopping center. It's one-stop shopping. Churches should be that way.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.
‐‐ Thomas Bangalter

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.
‐‐ Azim Premji

The concept of the terrorists is to plunge our country into division.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
‐‐ A. P. Herbert

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
‐‐ George Wald

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.
‐‐ Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
‐‐ Adrian Cronauer

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
‐‐ Satyajit Ray

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
‐‐ Alan Patrick Herbert

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.
‐‐ Cliff Shaw

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.
‐‐ Dorothy Denning

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.
‐‐ John Barrasso

The concern is the Government is not coming clean and informing the Australian public of the assumptions that they have made to give rise to a $10.4 billion package.
‐‐ Julie Bishop

The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.
‐‐ Debbie Stabenow

The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.
‐‐ Jose Rodriguez

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
‐‐ Henry Miller

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
‐‐ Paolo Bacigalupi

The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.
‐‐ Robert McFarlane

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.
‐‐ Ernest Mandel

The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?
‐‐ Lynn Westmoreland

The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.
‐‐ Julie Delpy

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes

The condition of my skin changes often, depending on the season or if I'm traveling a lot.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt

The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
‐‐ Val McDermid

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
‐‐ Emily Martin