Impracticable Quotes
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In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.
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More Impracticable Quotes
Give me the man who will surrender the whole world for a moss or a caterpillar, and impracticable visions for a simple human delight.
Bruce Frederick Cummings— 1919 Enjoying Life and Other Literary Remains,'Crying for the Moon'.
The first argument that is brought against every new proposal departing from conventional lines is nearly always that it is impracticable.
— 1921Fundamental Principles of Taxation, p.95.
The Labour Party's election programme?is the most fantastic and impracticable programme ever put before the electors. This is not socialism. It is bolshevism run mad.
— 1931 Radio broadcast,17 Oct.
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
william hazlitt— "On Genius and Common Sense"
Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.
jean-baptiste say— Book I, On Production, Chapter XXI, Section VI, p. 244
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.
sun yat-sen— Capital and the State (1924)
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
samuel johnson— Letter to James Boswell, December 7, 1782, p. 494.
In art , in taste , in life , in speech , you decide from feeling, and not from reason... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
— William Hazlitt, in Theodore R. Kucklick The Medical Device R&D Handbook, CRC Press, 21November 2005, p.8
China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.
— Sun Yat-sen, Capital and the State (1924)
Having found, from experience, that impeachment is an impracticable thing, a mere scare-crow, they consider themselves secure for life; they sculk from responsibility to public opinion, the only remaining hold on them, under a practice first introduced into England by Lord Mansfield.
— Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Ritchie (25 December 1820); on the judiciary.
Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.
— John F. Kennedy in his 1963 A Strategy of Peace speech
Resolve not to be poor; whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy tohumanhappiness; itcertainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. 446
— 1782 Letter to Boswell,7 Dec. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.
