Unless Quotes

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

I don't care to be involved in the crash-landing unless I can be in on the take-off.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.