(281 quotes found)
“There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.”
Leon Trotsky
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.”
Konrad Adenauer
“My method can be nothing, or the most intense, bizarre preparations you've ever seen.”
Christian Bale
“BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.”
Ambrose Bierce
“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends”
Caryl Rivers
“Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.”
Alice Miller
“I am suspicious of teachers who claim to have invented the only successful method of bringing out the best in young performers, of theorists who claim to have invented a unique approach to analysis, or of historians who wish to reduce all the developments of the musical style of the past entirely to the determinism of social conditions.”
Charles Rosen
“The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.”
Giulio Douhet
“The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.”
Georg Cantor
“It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.”
Cliff Shaw
