#quest

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

#case #dishonest #give #honest #how

Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#begin #beliefs #clings #conservatism #destroyed

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#dances #does #question #who

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#computer #interesting #more #question #submarine

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#obvious #often #out #question #spell

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box. ↗

— Sue Johanson

#kids #many #out #put #question

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#life #most #others #persistent #question

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #i think #islam #itself #needs

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#experience #generous #hundred #just #me