Casuistry Quotes

#1. I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

Alexander Pope

#3. Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Nancy Banks-Smith

#4. Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#5. Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

Harold Rosenberg

#6. These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when you knocked on the southerner magician's door to sacrifice yourself? Did they kick you out, thinking you too half-witted to waste their time on?

Maria V. Snyder

#8. I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Actors are responsible to the people we play.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#10. At the time, we thought it was a nice way to say something unique about the group to make us different from all the other bands kicking around in London.

Gerry Beckley

#11. The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Jamie Dimon

#12. I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

Kim Edwards

#13. The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

Will Self

#14. There is no good side to celebrity.

Javier Bardem

#15. You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

David Gest