Lack Quotes - page 2

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. (Clifford D. Simak)
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. View quote
Brendan Behan
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. View quote
Albert Camus
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. View quote
Albert Camus
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. View quote
Isaac Asimov
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. View quote
Herbert Hoover
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. View quote
Richard Dawkins
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. (Anton Chekhov)
Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. View quote
Molière
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. View quote
Federico Fellini
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. View quote
Barack Obama
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. View quote
Ryan Gosling
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. View quote
Charles Cooley
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. View quote
Potter Stewart
The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public. (Ron Paul)
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. View quote
Julian Simon
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either. View quote
Michio Kushi
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