Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Dr. Rutledge: You cannot alter this reality while inside the source code.
The Operative: [to Mal] You cannot make me angry. Inara Serra: Please, spend an hour with him!
Johanna: If I cannot fly, let me sing...
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.
You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
