Mitigating Quotes

#1. One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

Jonathan V. Last

#2. In fact, man has been able to make his pursuit of power easier to-day by his art of mitigating the obstructive forces that came from the higher region of his humanity.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'

David Harsanyi

#4. Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Narendra Modi

#5. How can we make the most of the opportunities afforded by the dynamism and the freedom set loose by America's postwar diffusion while mitigating its costs and burdens, especially for the most vulnerable among us? In

Yuval Levin

#6. Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

Philippe Lejeune

#7. Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything.

Woody Allen

#8. We have got to deal with increased demand for energy, increased demand for food, increased demand for water, and we've got to do that while mitigating and adapting to climate change. And we have but 21 years to do it

John Beddington

#9. All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.

Ray Comfort

#10. How could the disciplines and the power that functions in them appear arbitrary, when they merely operate the mechanisms of justice itself, even with a view to mitigating their intensity?

Michel Foucault

#11. It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Mariella Frostrup

#12. I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

Lisa Cholodenko

#13. Metaphorically speaking, I always make room for any evidence of scurvy in my characters, any mitigating ailments.

Mary Karr

#14. Even when a social problem is so vast as to be insoluble in its entirety, it's still worth mitigating.

Nicholas Kristof

#15. Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

Narendra Modi

#16. You must provide more benefits and fewer costs and risks than the other choices your manager has. Most people seeking a promotion pay more attention to promising benefits than they do to alleviating costs and mitigating risks, but all three are critical in any decision to promote from within.

Anonymous

#17. The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

John Maynard Keynes

#18. I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#19. If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

Theodor Herzl

#20. Humankind has endless potential, but shows an endless capacity to fall short of that promise.

Mark E. Burgess

#21. And if this is illegal, then sue me!

Fred Smoot

#22. Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

Francis Bacon

#23. The unknown is exciting. Not knowing what you really want to do is an adventure. It's a chance to go out there and find out what you want, to learn about yourself. Not everyone has it figured out, you know.

R.K. Ryals

#24. You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

Anne Bronte

#25. I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Howard Mumford Jones

#26. Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

Hakuin Ekaku