Inherently Quotes

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

We're not inherently anything but human.