The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.
It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.
There is no quick easy way to the body you want. . . commit yourself now to your workout and get started.
To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.
Commitment doesn't mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.
If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.
Commit yourself to quality from day one. . . it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.
Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But. . . they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.
If a guy won't commit, he's a player.
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.