Top 22 Dereliction Quotes
#1. A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
Fernando Pessoa
#3. A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
Klaus Schwab
#4. Cowardly isn't a dereliction of duty, but rather a part of our humanity. However, only the brave ones are known for their humanity.
Melody Manful
#5. My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
Deborah Harkness
#6. If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction ... Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.
Richard Matheson
#7. Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.
Jerry A. Coyne
#8. To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.
Roger Wolcott Sperry
#10. In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
Anthony Zinni
#11. Your past is where you learned the lesson. Now is when you get to apply it.
Karen Salmansohn
#12. Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years
E.D. Baker
#13. I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
Harry S. Dent
#14. Oh, there spoke the human! He is always pretending that the eternal bliss of heaven is such a priceless boon! Yes, and always keeping out of heaven just as long as he can! At bottom, you see, he is far from being certain about heaven.
Mark Twain
#15. God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
Saint Ambrose
#16. A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.
Elbert Hubbard
#17. A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm twice as good as you do.' To which the Southerner replied: 'Hell, son, I don't farm half as good as I know how now.
Grady McWhiney
#19. I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
Daniel Boulud
#20. What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do.
Arthur Mitchell
#21. Decision making is the specific executive task.
Peter Drucker
#22. The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
Clarence Darrow
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