#indirect

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. ↗

— Albert Camus

#cannot #citizens #directly #goods #immoral

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#i #i do #indirectly #linux #paid

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#certain #characters #directly #given #indirectly

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#also #attack #both #breaking #comprises

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#angle #city #contains #ever #indirect

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. ↗

— Vance Packard

#between #creative #creative man #difference #express

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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