Cannot Quotes

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

You cannot play with fire.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.