The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals

Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Topics: Pacifism Quotes

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then...

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then...

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition...

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual...

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual...

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its...

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its...

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to...

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things...

Seek simplicity but distrust it

Seek simplicity but distrust it

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule,...

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule,...

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

How close you are with someone is not based on how often you talk to...

How close you are with someone is not based on how often you talk to...