Indiscriminate Quotes

#1. Yet he knew that if she wavered he would never forgive her; she would drop at once from her high estate into those depths in his opinion where the dull average of both sexes sprawled for ever in indiscriminate heaps.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#2. There was always an element of melancholy involved in sex. After his indiscriminate adolescence he'd preferred sad women, delicate and breakable, women who'd been messed up and who needed him.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Only indiscriminate love can make us free.

Babatunde Olatunji

#4. The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. The lessons Morden had learnt when he had broken Billard's finger were that not many understood the real nature of pain, and even fewer understood that true power does not come from indiscriminate acts but calculated demonstrations of Will.

Paul Dale

#6. Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Lord Chesterfield

#7. People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

Ban Ki-moon

#8. An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

Herman Melville

#9. Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Timothy Ferriss

#10. Which side is yours?"
"They're both mine," he answered mirthfully, having gotten a good bit of teasing over the years for his indiscriminate sprawling. "Take whichever side you like, and be prepared to defend it.

Varian Krylov

#11. She was classic Wyoming, that indiscriminate age between thirty and a hundred where the women find a comfort for themselves and just settle in.

Craig Johnson

#12. Sometimes blessings are indiscriminate.

Jami Attenberg

#13. Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Teju Cole

#14. His indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.

Michael Cunningham

#15. I am Crone, eldest of the Moon's Great Ravens, whose eyes have looked upon a hundred thousand years of human folly. Hence my tattered coat and broken beak as evidence of your indiscriminate destruction. I am but a winged witness of your eternal madness.

Steven Erikson

#16. Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

Al Franken

#17. The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#18. People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.

Jean Ingelow

#19. Love is indiscriminate in the path it takes to find you.

Truth Devour

#20. The right kind of immigrants can benefit the British economy enormously, but no country can accept indiscriminate, unlimited immigration.

Nigel Lawson

#21. Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

Gijs De Vries

#22. Art isn't indiscriminate shit-flinging. It's pure communication, crafted with intention and care. Every comedian on every stage is saying what he's saying on purpose. So shouldn't we be welcome to examine that purpose, contextualize it within our culture at large, and critique what we find? The

Lindy West

#23. The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#24. Terrorism is not just about indiscriminate violence. As its name suggests, it is about instilling paranoia

Dana Priest

#25. You can take course after course of so-called theology and never hear the message at the heart of Christianity - the message of Jesus, which is indiscriminate love.

Eileen Egan

#26. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.

Doug Stanhope

#27. Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Sheikh Hasina

#28. Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.

Isaac Asimov

#29. Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#30. The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Herbert Hoover

#31. Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.

Edward Snowden

#32. He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#33. Actually, no, I feel like I'm some indiscriminate age.

Karina Halle

#34. We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

Gijs De Vries

#35. The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive
signs of vulgarity!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. Maybe that was the hidden blessing: the hurricane was the great equalizer; its wrath indiscriminate. In the end, the blessing, if there were one, was that for a short time, everyone would come together in order to survive. Less

Natalie Baszile

#37. Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.

R. Kent Hughes

#38. Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Kit Reed

#39. Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#40. The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances.

Paul Harris

#41. Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

George Orwell

#42. War does not ask which of its victims deserves to die and which does not. It is indiscriminate. Innocent as well as guilty fall before it.

Connie Brockway

#43. I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me - as you judge me - from my fluency.

Virginia Woolf

#44. My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.

Frank O'Hara

#45. The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

#46. In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.

Evan Sayet

#47. Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

Howard Zinn

#48. The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the

Michel Faber

#49. You would describe your taste in film as ECLECTIC, but in truth, it isn't much less than TOTALLY INDISCRIMINATE.

Andrew Hussie

#50. Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don't bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don't rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?

Rabih Alameddine

#51. When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

Marilynne Robinson

#52. Jude's desire for girls was indiscriminate feverish and complete he wanted them all equally and he wanted them not at all. Blondes and brunettes big ones or small ones - they were cold fragile impenetrable creatures all desirable as they were undesirable all perfumed and pretty.

Eleanor Henderson

#53. Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

Robert Ludlum

#54. Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

Ayn Rand

#55. I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Jane Austen

#56. More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Aaron Huey

#57. I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

Ken Livingstone

#58. The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

Moses Hadas

#59. Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions

Stuart Christie

#60. Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Andrew Carnegie

#61. The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

George Washington

#62. You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.

James Surowiecki

#63. We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children

Howard Zinn

#64. Love comes as fast as shrapnel in the trenches. It's indiscriminate. It gets whoever's closest.

Hugh Howey

#65. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

Zora Neale Hurston

#66. Psychic awareness turns a veiled nudge into a disclosure and an indiscriminate urge into a valuable discovery.

Michelle A. Beltran

#67. The dignity and sobriety of old public buildings, their temple facades, would be assaulted and covered over by indiscriminate modernity; that new buildings, more severely efficient, would eventually replace them.

Gail Jones

#68. The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.

Orhan Pamuk

#69. Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'

Pope Francis

#70. Gang shootings - as indiscriminate as they often are - still don't have the nihilistic intent of rampages. Rather, they are rooted in an exceedingly strong sense of group loyalty and revenge, and bystanders sometimes get killed in the process.

Sebastian Junger

#71. The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

Arundhati Roy

#72. Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Henry Fuseli

#73. Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

Gore Vidal

#74. From the shapes cast by the green paper lantern, you would never know that there were two boys sitting closely to one another trying to find themselves. You would only see shadows hugging, indiscriminate.

Adam Silvera

#75. Cynical, self-deprecating, affected, indiscriminate, patronizing, immature, as sloppy intellectually as he was with his desk, fickle, vain, virile, brooding, pedantic, philandering...in short, Byronic, Byronic, Byronic, almost to the point of parody.

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

#76. Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner.

Samuel Johnson

#77. The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Christopher Hitchens

#78. That it ought to be known I was born this way,
With indiscriminate tendencies.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#79. Due to the paucity of intellect people do not realise that it is through the discipline of regulated abstinence that one can really enjoy the world. Your intellect must constantly check and control indiscriminate indulgence.

A. Parthasarathy

#80. Sexual freedom and liberation has to be of your own making. I'm stunned when I hear about friends' children, ten or twelve years old giving blow jobs. I just don't like the girls being used or exploited in that way. It's just indiscriminate sexual relating. It's just the isolated things.

Lily Tomlin

#81. In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.

Ayn Rand