Disqualification Quotes

• El rastro de la serpiente llega a todas las profesiones y prácticas lucrativas del hombre. Cada una tiene sus propios males. Cada una considera que una conciencia tierna y muy inteligente es una descalificación para el éxito. Cada una requiere de quien la practica un cierto cierre de ojos, una cierta docilidad y conformidad, una aceptación de costumbres, un secuestro de los sentimientos de generosidad y amor, un compromiso de la opinión privada y la elevada integridad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Work, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.238

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• Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.

  Paul Virilio

  Sex, Eye, Data

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• ...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.

  Gilberto Simoni

  Climbing, Stressed, Unjust

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• The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

  Harriet Martineau

  Honesty, Hunger And Thirst, Politics

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.57

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• In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought to count as presumption against its truth, and as a philosophic disqualification. The prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman.

  William James

  Real, Views, Sweat

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Under most circumstances that would result in disqualification. If the rules of golf are upheld, I believe he should have been disqualified.

  Steve Williams

  Believe, Golf, Should Have

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• La resolución de asistir a teatros u óperas es una descalificación absoluta para las Órdenes Sagradas.

  Samuel Wilberforce

  Order, Theatre, Opera

  "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, p. 74, 1898.

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• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Opportunity, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1972). "Blkberry Winter"

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• The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.

  Edmund Burke

  Hombres, Ley, Apoyo

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.73, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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