#liable

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#changed #creed #good #got #holds

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ↗

— John Lennon

#away #being #ends #expressing #i

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american jobs #data #debate #globalization #jobs

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. ↗

— John Locke

#interest #liable #many #men #most

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. ↗

— James Madison

#in my opinion #interest #liable #majority #maxim

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. ↗

— James Madison

#essence #ever #government #hands #human

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#bluff #cowards #eye #liable #like

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#affections #difficult #full #grateful #live

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#always #course #defend #error #great

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#because #come #earth #heaven #kingdom