#cons

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#balances #believe #checks #consideration #constitution

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conscious #difference #great #immeasurably #jesus

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#beauty #considered #except #ideal #never

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit. ↗

— David Zucker

#bounds #far #force #i #keeps

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life. ↗

— William Vickrey

#considered #educational #enhanced #expenditure #form

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#indulgence #many #now #self #tend

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. ↗

— Jung Chang

#consequently #did #government #human #human beings

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#consent #depress #down #hardship #influence

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China. ↗

— James Chanos

#almost #billion #child #china #commercial