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It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.
robert hughes— "Komar and Melamid" (1982)
To prove cannot mean anything other than to bring the other person to my own conviction. The truth lies only in the unification of “I” and “You.” The Other of pure thought, however, is the sensuous intellect in general. In the field of philosophy, proof therefore consists only in the fact that the contradiction between sensuous intellect and pure thought is disposed, so that thought is true not only for itself but also for its opposite.
— Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 75
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
john calvin— Page 28 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
He tried also to encourage civilised warfare among earthworms, by supplying them with small pieces of pipe, with which they might fight if so disposed.
stuart dodgson collingwood— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. 11
Men trade unionists are accused of sex privilege and prejudice ... A belief in the divine right of every man to his job is not peculiar to kings and capitalists, and men in organised trades are not disposed to share these advantages with a host of women competitors.
— Women in Trade Unions (1920)
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
charles james napier— Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars, p. 27-31
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.
ptolemy— Book IV, sec. 7
Iraq is not [100 percent] disarmed, the commission can not verify that all weapons and capability to produce weapons are indeed disposed of, destroyed, removed, or rendered harmless in accordance with provisions of the Security Council resolution.
scott ritter— Weapons inspector: Stop catering to Baghdad. CNN August 27, 1998
Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.
wood, e. f. l., 1st earl of halifax— Letter to William Wedgwood Benn, quoted in Birkenhead, p. 275.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
— Jane Austen (1841) Emma: A Novel. p. 159
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, The Adventurer, No. 137.
Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.
maimonides— Ch.8 (Part III)
One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.
Malcolm Muggeridge— "A Knight of the Woeful Countenance" in The World of George Orwell (1972) edited by Miriam Gross, p. 167
I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.
alexei panshin— Chapter 12 (p. 166)
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
cesare pavese— 1940-02-09
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato— 566e (Book VIII)
When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act II, scene 1, line 11.
When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's suffrage movement leader, in a letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library (October 16, 1873).
I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-gita. It was the first of books’ it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another rage and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted on bhaktivedantamanor.co.uk
The laws of [false utility] are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator?
— Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, 1764, Chapter 40 [1], this has sometimes been wrongly attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson transcribed this passage (in the original Italian) in his Legal Commonplace Book, item 828.
Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in putting questions?" Indeed, the secret of your system has just this instant dawned upon me. I seem to see the principle in which you put your questions. You lead me through the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that I really know some things which hitherto, as I believed, I had no knowledge of.
— Oeconomicus (The Economist) as translated by H.G. Dakyns.
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
Charles Lamb— Charles Lamb, A Chapter on Ears.
[N]ever has a group disposed of such equipment for saying nothing, and never has a group gone to such lengths to reach the public and bring nothing.
— Albert Gleizes (circa 1923), his critical quote, seizing upon the Dada practices to destroy words and syntaxis; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 37
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
— Ronald Reagan, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation", Human Life Review, Spring 1984.
When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's suffrage movement leader, in a letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library (October 16, 1873).
