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But because we live in a liberal democracy and therefore have certain double standards to maintain, any criticism of Islam or of Muslims always draws the immediate accusation of Islamophobia, a dishonest word which seeks to portray legitimate comment as some kind of hate crime.
— Pat Condell, YouTube video (16 March 2007, from YouTube)
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing."
Quentin Crisp— Ch. 24 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))
The division created by the English educated scholars who separate the Vedas and the Upanishads from the Puranas and thus make a distinction between the Vedic dharma and the Puranic dharma is a mistake born of ignorance . The Puranas are accepted as an authority on the Hindu dharma because they explain the knowledge contained in the Veda and the Upanishads to the average man, comment upon it, discuss it at great length and endeavour to apply it to the commonplace details of life .
— Sri Aurobindo, in "Sri Aurobindo Writings in Bengali Translated into English".
In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks,'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religionfrom Rome or Geneva, butthe dictates of my own reason.
— 1634-5 Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 5.
I am never going to make another comment about another capital city, I promise you, I promise you that.
robert doyle—
Il faut aimer n'importe qui, n'importe quoi, n'importe comment, pourvu qu'on aime.
Dumas, Alexandre, fils— We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.
— Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867), Act I, sc. ii; translation from Louis Proal (trans. A. R. Allinson) Passion and Criminality (London: Imperial Press, 1905) p. 563.
Whether its [David] Berkowitz, whether its [Ted] Bundy, whether its Williams, Wayne Williams down in Atlanta or any of the others, or Charlie Manson—I don't comment about other cases for the simple fact is that I wasn't there.
john wayne gacy— YouTube video
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.As I have said, this was not noticed
doris lessing— Introduction (1971 edition)
I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.
kenneth thompson— "Ken Thompson clarifies matters", Linux Today. May 7, 1999. [8]
On étouffe les clameurs, mais comment se venger du silence?
alfred de vigny— Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?
— Chap. 26, p. 433; translation by William Hazlitt from Cinq-Mars (1847) p. 344.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
t. h. (terence hanbury) white— The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959), p. 161
Théâtre des ris et des pleursLit! où je nais, et où je meurs,Tu nous fais voir comment voisinsSont nos plaisirs et chagrins.
— In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;And born in bed, in bed we die;The near approach a bed may showOf human bliss to human woe.
— Isaac de Benserade, Dr. Johnson's translation.
Voici la conclusion de ce voyage sous les mers. Ce qui se passa pendant cette nuit, comment le canot échappa au formidable remous du Maelstrom, comment Ned Land, Conseil et moi, nous sortîmes du gouffre, je ne saurai le dire.
jules verne— Thus ends the voyage under the seas. What passed during that night — how the boat escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom — how Ned Land, Conseil, and myself ever came out of the gulf, I cannot tell.Part II, ch. XXIII: Conclusion
My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on what to make beyond that. You know, it's not my jurisdiction, not my job, not my judgment.
patrick fitzgerald— Fitzgerald News Conference from nytimes.com (October 28, 2005)
What puzzles me most is your criticism that he showed 'no sense of engagement'. I haven't met the expression before, and feel bound to comment on its totalitarian tang. Engagement not with the truth as the speaker apprehends it, but with the alleged opinion of the majority of listeners.
e. m. forster— Letter 400, to John Morris, 12 January 1953
Ce sont les hommes qui n'aiment pas les femmes qui s'intéressent à la toilette des femmes. Et les hommes qui aiment les femmes ne voient pas seulement comment elles sont habillées.
anatole france— Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.Histoire contemporaine: L'anneau d'améthyste (1899)
Et scahiez que Anglois et Escoçoiz, quant ilz se treuvent en bataille ensamble, sont dures gens et de longue alainne, et point ne s'esparngnent, mais s'entendent de eulx mettre à oultranche, comment qu'il prende. Ilz ne ressamblent pas les Alemans qui font une empainte, et, quant ilz voient qu'ilz ne puellent rompre ne entrer en leurs ennemis, ilz s'en retournent tout à ung fais.
jean froissart— It should be repeated that the English and Scots, when they meet in battle, fight hard and show great staying-power. They do not spare themselves, but go on to the limits of endurance. They are not like the Germans, who make one attack and then, if they see that they cannot break into the enemy and beat him, all turn back in a body.Book 3, p. 345.
But, the people who criticized these people were ... what? I am so disgusted with people who think free speech is defined as being able to say what you think without being criticized." (In reference to Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks comment at the 49th Grammy Awards that "People are using their freedom of speech tonight [by giving us] all these awards. I'm very humbled.
jonah goldberg— ([3])
(on the current state of satire) Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now--to quote myself at my most pretentious--is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste. For example, the freedom (hooray!) to say almost anything you want on television about society's problems has been co-opted (alas!) by the freedom to talk instead about flatulence, orgasms, genitalia, masturbation, etc., etc., and to replace real comment with pop-culture references and so-called "adult" language. Irreverence is easy--what's hard is wit.
tom lehrer— Rhino Records online chat, June 17th, 1997.
He was deeply impressed by the eloquence of the plaintiff, and after hearing his evidence he exclaimed, "I believe you are right!" The clerk of the court explained that he should make no such comment until he had heard the case for the defence. Having done so, Nasruddin cried out, "I believe you are right!" "But they can't both be right," expostulated the clerk. "I believe you are right," said the Mulla.
nasreddin— Ivor Lucas, A Road to Damascus (1997), ISBN 1860641520, p. 84
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
camille paglia— p. 29 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
I'm very glad that there was, in fact, a consequence. I think that this kind of coarse language doesn't belong anywhere in reasonable dialogue between reasonable people. ... It gets ruined by this disgusting -- and I'll use the word 'disgusting' -- comment which doesn't belong in any polite company and certainly doesn't belong on any radio station that I would listen to.
condoleezza rice— Interview by Michael Medved, April 13, 2007
A number of American authorities were cited in the course of the argument, which may be briefly noticed, seeing that they were made the subject of comment in both Courts below.
— Lord Watson, Huntington v. Attrill, 62 L. J. Rep. P. C. C. 1893, p. 49.
Counsel are frequently induced, and they are justified in taking the most favourable view of their clients' case; and it is not fair to pass over any piece of evidence they find difficult to deal with, provided they cite, fairly and correctly, those parts of the evidence they comment upon.
— Lord Kenyon, Case of Earl of Thanet and others (1799), 27 How. St. Tr. 940.
Science is not a discipline that claims to establish certainty ... Science simply cannot (by its legitimate methods) adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature. We neither affirm nor deny it; we simply can't comment on it as scientists.
— Stephen Jay Gould, "Impeaching a Self-Appointed Judge" (review of Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson) Scientific American (July 1992)
No comment.
— Who: Edward Abbey
— Note: His response as to whether he had any last words. (The epitaph on his memorial stone was "No Comment".)
Je suis tourmenté par de mauvaises idées. En quel genre? Ça se guérit, les idées. - comment? - En y succombant.
honoré de balzac— "I am tormented by temptations."
"What kind? There is a cure for temptation."
"What?"
"Yielding to it."Part II
comment prétendons-nous qu'un autre puisse garder notre secret, si nous ne pouvons le garder nous-mêmes?
françois de la rochefoucauld— How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?Maxim 64 of the Maximes supprimées.
