Liable Quotes - Page 3

• Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Hielo, Tierra, Agua

  Pierre Trudeau during House of Commons Debate, October 24, 1969.

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• Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Weapons, Causes, Logic

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• Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do.

  Alain de Botton

  Moving, Eye, Reflection

  Alain de Botton (2003). "El arte de viajar", p.32, Penguin UK

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• The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

  Carroll Smith

  Ignorance, Clouds, Visibility

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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  Ann Shulgin

  Simple, Long Ago, Finding Yourself

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Pain, Loss, Mind

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• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Self, Ego

  Eric Maisel (1996). "Afirmaciones para artistas", Tarcher

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• If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

  Clive Stafford Smith

  Government, Criminals, Accomplices

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• Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Motivation, Littles, Preoccupation

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• In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Secret, Secrecy, Betray

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• Si se admite que un hombre, poseyendo un poder absoluto, puede abusar de ese poder perjudicando a sus adversarios, ¿por qué una mayoría no habría de ser susceptible del mismo reproche? Los hombres no son propensos a cambiar su carácter por aglomeración; ni su paciencia en presencia de obstáculos aumenta con la conciencia de su fuerza. Y por estas razones nunca podré investir de buena gana a un número cualquiera de mis semejantes con esa autoridad ilimitada que debería negar a cualquiera de ellos.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Carácter, Hombres, Números

  Alexis de Tocqueville, John Canfield Spencer (1854). "Las instituciones americanas y su influencia", p.260

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• I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

  Michael K. Williams

  Hurt

  "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

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• I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

  August Wilson

  Law, Say Anything, Matter

  August Wilson (2007). “The Piano Lesson”

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• Existe un derecho a la intimidad para todas las personas y todos los que tienen derechos legales, y eso incluye a los no nacidos. Como obstetra, si causo algún daño a un feto, me demandarán. Si alguien mata o daña a un feto, será responsable ante un tribunal.

  Ron Paul

  Derechos, Ley, Feto

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable

  Tucídides

  Army, Night, Crowds

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.

  Gene Wolfe

  Spring, Women, Believe

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.372, Macmillan

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• It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Gold, Variation

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.46

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• Su sistema estaba expuesto a convulsiones periódicas, crisis empresariales a intervalos de cinco a diez años, que hacían naufragar las industrias de la nación.

  Edward Bellamy

  Years, Crisis, Five

  "Looking Backward, 2000-1887". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 22, 1888.

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• Lying is a crime the least liable to variation in its definitions. A child will upon the slightest temptation tell an untruth as readily as the truth. That is, as soon as he can suspect that it will be to his advantage; and the dread that he afterward has of telling a lie is acquired principally by his being threatened, punished, and terrified by those who detect him in it, till at length, a number of painful impressions are annexed to the telling of an untruth, and he comes even to shudder at the thought of it.

  Joseph Priestley

  Children, Lying, Numbers

  Joseph Priestley (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.196

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
  Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.

  James F. Cooper

  Military, Men, Law

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Libro de James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• If you approach a film with the feeling that you are going to have some impact on society then you're liable to get carried away with yourself. Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, "Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.

  Clint Eastwood

  Impact, Feelings, Analyzing

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• Debe parecer imposible que el teísmo haya sido, por razonamiento, la religión primaria de la raza humana, y que después, por su corrupción, haya dado origen al politeísmo y a todas las diversas supersticiones del mundo pagano. La razón, cuando es obvia, previene estas corrupciones: Cuando es abstrusa, mantiene los principios enteramente fuera del conocimiento del vulgo, que es el único capaz de corromper cualquier principio u opinión.

  David Hume

  Raza, Principios, Mundo

  David Hume (2016). "La historia natural de la religión: Revisión del Gran Libro", p.5, VM eBooks.

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• We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Exercise, People, Personality

  Platform, Independent League; "New York Journal-American", February 1, 1924.

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• O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

  John Milton

  Strong, Fall, Mind

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.52-7.

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• It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.

  George Washington

  Government, Constitution, Checks

  George Washington (1997). “Writings”

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