Inherently Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.

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

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

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.

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.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

We're not inherently anything but human.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Inherently, department stores have significant advantages compared to all other retailers.

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.