#mechanism

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#answer #buttons #ever #exactly #imperfect

You might imagine that a person would resort to self-mutilation only under extremes of duress, but once I'd crossed that line the first time, taken that fateful step off the precipice, then almost any reason was a good enough reason, almost any provocation was provocation enough. Cutting was my all-purpose solution. ↗

— Caroline Kettlewell

#cutting #self-harm #si #imagination

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. ↗

— John Bolton

#best #broadly #decide #done #instruments

People use irony as a defense mechanism. ↗

— David Byrne

#defense mechanism #irony #mechanism #people #use

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#deal #discussed #discussions #give #good

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism. ↗

— Andy Dick

#defense #defense mechanism #i #i see #i think

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#directed #life #mechanism #offensive #repetitious

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#comfortable #communication #communication skills #different #digital

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efficient #escape #mechanisms #most