As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.
I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.
The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.
Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.
Faith alone is never enough. You must follow up with the right effective plan and strategic action.
Dream as big as you desire, but don't forget to wake yourself from it with some consistent effective actions.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.
