It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.
To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.
Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.
If a solution isn't mutually satisfactory, it's not going to stick.
Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.
We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.
If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your work. You've made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.
The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.
The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
It would be most satisfactory if physics and psyche could be seen as complementary aspects of the same reality
