Implication Quotes
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No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.
ford madox ford— Dedicatory letter to Stella Ford (1927-01-09) in The Good Soldier, second edition.
When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled…It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.
marina warner— Joan of Arc (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1981] 1983) p. 262.
I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
clement attlee— The Times, 14 July 1934, p. 7.Speech in the House of Commons, 13 July 1934, on the Foreign Office estimates. His remarks about dictatorships gradually falling down was a reference to the Night of the Long Knives in Nazi Germany a fortnight before.
Early in his career Hoskins had realized that no field of science is remote from the affairs of men, that there is a sociological implication inherent even in the simple set of screwing a nut on a bolt.
mark clifton— pp. 29-30 (They'd Rather Be Right (1954))
What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people
john james cowperthwaite— March 27, 1968, page 215.
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.
raymond geuss— Chapter 2 (Philosophy and Real Politics (2008))
The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication.
stephen jay gould— "Men of the Thirty-Third Division: An Essay on Integrity", p. 125
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being, and of that which is incident to it.
marcus aurelius— Alternate Translation: Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.X, 5.
The practical implication is that one's goal is to live each moment with freedom, honesty and responsibility.
rollo may— p. 235 (Man’s Search for Himself (1953))
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a turnip truck to take these jobs.
Donald Rumsfeld— In response to Jeffrey Goldberg's question to comment on accusations that the "Jewish lobby" maneuvered the administration into war. The New Republic, October 8, 2007. [40]
Since liberalism has become a kind of official party line, we have been enjoined against saying things about races, religions or national groups, for after all, there is no categorical statement without its implication of value, and values begin divisions among men. We must not define, subsume, or judge; we must rather rest on the periphery and display “sensibility toward the cultural expressions of all lands and peoples.” This is a process of emasculation.
richard weaver— p. 59 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
Early in his career Hoskins had realized that no field of science is remote from the affairs of men, that there is a sociological implication inherent even in the simple set of screwing a nut on a bolt.
— pp. 29-30 (They'd Rather Be Right (1954))
I know of no case where by implication of law the duty of clearing himself from an imputed fraud rests on the defendant.
— Lord Watson, Cavendish Bentinck v. Fenn (1887), L. R. 12 App. Ca. 666.
The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.
— Kenneth Waltz (1954) Man, the State, and War Chapter VII, Some Implications Of The Third Image, p. 204
The game laws are already sufficiently oppressive, and therefore ought not to be extended by implication.
Joseph Chitty— Willes, J., Jones v. Smart (1785), 1 T. R. 49; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 99.
The overriding crucial implication of the structural adjustment policies was that the villagers would have to fend for themselves in all conceivable respects.
Lars rudebeck— About villagers of Adjadja, Guinea-Bissau in the 1990s.
The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.
Joseph H. Greenberg— Scientist at Work: Joseph H. Greenberg; What We All Spoke When the World Was Young (February 1, 2000)
The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.
— from (1999). Ideology. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.
implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
willard van orman quine— S. 41
Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.
simon conway morris— p.XV (Life's Solution (2003))
God bless all the precious little examples and all their cascading implications; without these gems, these tiny acorns bearing the blueprints of oak trees, essayists would be out of business.
stephen jay gould— Questioning the Millennium (second edition, Harmony, 1999), p. 42
We are trying to understand the implications of quantum mechanics. The subject is very old, but we are still learning.
leonard mandel— as quoted by John Hogan, in Quantum Philosophy, Scientific American (July 1992)
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. The iPhone is in deep trouble.
eric s. raymond— The Smartphone Wars: AT&T CEO reveals all in Armed and Dangerous (27 January 2011)
It's not very often a federal judge does a 180 degree turn in a case and dissolves an order. But we're very pleased the judge recognized the constitutional implications in this prior restraint.
— Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, commenting on Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks — reported in Orion, Egan (March 2, 2008). "Judge reverses Wikileaks injunction". The Inquirer (www.inquirer.net). Retrieved on 2009-03-04.
The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.
— Green, Lucy (1999). "Ideology". Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. ISBN 0631212639.
Isolated incidents have lateral, lasting implications.
Katherine Ryan— Canadian comedian, writer, presenter, and actress
I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.
Blythe masters— Executive and businesswoman
