The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.
Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.
The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need. . . But could anything seriously be done about it?
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.
God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.