#unable

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#cause #changes #come #external #follows

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#benefits #financially #full #generation #legally

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. ↗

— Chris Martin

#become #benefit #bled #countries #dry

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#himself #unable #unfair #writer

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#childless #couple #difference #gay #heterosexual

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#destiny #determine #forced #go #history

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#comes #discovered #evil #human #i