Top 100 The General Quotes
#1. I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Susan Orlean
#2. Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
Simon Mainwaring
#3. There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
H.G.Wells
#4. Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.
Sun Tzu
#5. What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#6. My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren't prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.
Joss Sheldon
#7. A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.
Robert Payne
#8. There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps.
Joanne Harris
#9. Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.
Melville Fuller
#10. Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.
Richard M. Weaver
#11. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.
Italo Calvino
#12. The general election's taking place today in Iraq, so I guess that means we're one step closer to being there for another 10 years.
David Letterman
#14. For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they'll have.
Tino Sehgal
#15. The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
George Washington
#16. [Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.
James A. Michener
#17. To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. We're all already aware of boobies; it is the general state of most people in North America! THANKS, MEDIA AND THE MALE GAZE
Ryan North
#19. Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.
Samuel Parr
#20. The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.
Curtis Jackson
#21. The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.
Jacques Maritain
#22. The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants.'
Sasa Stanisic
#23. You see, someone in this kingdom has a very dangerous enemy, and I need to know who it is." "Who? This someone or the enemy?" asked the general. "Oh, I know who the enemy is," Rezkin replied. "Then, who is the enemy?" Marcum asked. "Me," Rezkin stated.
Kel Kade
#24. Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.
Steven Magee
#25. For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.
Douglas Massey
#26. We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.
David Miliband
#27. Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
Michael Polanyi
#28. A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.
James Marcus Bach
#29. Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.
Harvey Pekar
#30. Public utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures.
James McHenry
#31. Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God's frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
Sunday Adelaja
#32. They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.
Jane Austen
#33. The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
George Washington
#34. There was also a sense that if he [Obama] did not win in Iowa, that it was very unlikely that he would be able to come back and win the Democratic nomination and win the general election. It was sort of an all-or-nothing bet. The stakes were that high.
Josh Earnest
#35. Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Patrick Kavanagh
#36. Mrs. Benjamin does not precisely understand first aid, but she thinks she gets the general principles: things that are within the body must stay within at all times. If they do not stay in, they must be forced in, and kept there via things like gauze and sticky tape.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#37. We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. Why isn't the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
Tony Abbott
#39. Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
Benjamin Franklin
#40. In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
Eric S. Raymond
#41. Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions - say 10 percent - of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion.
Carl Sagan
#42. Hullo, commandant,' I said, 'how's the General?'
'Which general?' he asked with a shy grin.
'Surely in the Caodaist faith,' I said, 'all generals are reconciled.
Graham Greene
#43. This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger
#44. To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
Liza Minnelli
#45. We generally have what we need. The general misperception is that we need what we want.
Ridley Pearson
#46. In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#47. As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Noam Chomsky
#48. Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.
Ambrose Burnside
#49. If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare ... they may appoint teachers in every state ... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.
James Madison
#50. Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.
Noam Chomsky
#51. The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [ ... ] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.
Fernando J. Corbato
#52. George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.
Mark Shields
#53. I believe the general consensus is the bigger it is, the more women flock to you. I guess its a good thing mine is HUGE!
Zach Braff
#55. Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#56. In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
Oscar Wilde
#57. Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.
Etgar Keret
#58. The truth is always the truth, although if a lie has been repeated enough, especially by a figure of authority, the general population will begin to see those lies as truth.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#59. Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.
Greg Graffin
#60. The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
Thomas Merton
#61. A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
David Chalmers
#62. Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#63. Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.
Anthony Fauci
#64. I have created hours upon hours of different music over the years that the general public has never heard. Maybe one day I'll release them all in one big package, but we'll see.
Phil Anselmo
#65. Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
Mark Twain
#66. Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
Garrett Hardin
#67. They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
John Morley
#68. Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
Alan Dundes
#69. But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
Joseph Rotblat
#70. Tell me of what plant-birthday a man takes notice, and I shall tell you a good deal about his vocation, his hobbies, his hay fever, and the general level of his ecological education.
Aldo Leopold
#71. In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.
Malcolm Gladwell
#72. You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
Danica Patrick
#73. In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.
Joseph Story
#74. When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.
Rich Lowry
#75. The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good design'd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
John Dryden
#76. There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.
Ezra Stiles
#77. The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.
Tom Clancy
#78. Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.
Judd Apatow
#79. Thank you - for all your compliments about the general badassery of my family's DNA.
Katie Ashley
#80. The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot
#81. It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.
Michael Lewis
#82. Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#83. You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.
Allen West
#84. Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#85. The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
William Godwin
#86. The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous consequences for the development of music in the New World.
Ned Sublette
#87. The only thing I ever saw that came close to Objective Journalism was a closed-circuit TV setup that watched shoplifters in the General Store at Woody Creek, Colorado.
Hunter S. Thompson
#88. I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.
Myrtle Reed
#89. The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.
Asger Jorn
#90. The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour.
Sir John Richard Hicks
#91. The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#92. (Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.) At
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#93. Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
Peter Jackson
#94. An exceedingly well-informed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life.
Anthony Powell
#95. Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
Mel Ferrer
#96. We started when we're around 13 writing it - maybe 14. I'm a little older than Evan Goldberg is, like, only like six months. But like, I would say, like, the general structure of the movie, like, the series of events is very similar to what it was when we first wrote it.
Seth Rogen
#97. There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.
Leo Tolstoy
#99. ER also helps students move away from a word-by-word approach to reading. It helps them to look for the general meaning of what they read. They can ignore any details they do not fully understand.
Richard Day
#100. There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
Anthony Fauci
