We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is

If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one…

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off – I’m talking 100km or 200km long – every 10 or 20 or 50 years.

The ballpark is a place where generations come together to share in the joy of the game

In seats where perhaps we don’t expect to win at the next general election, the new infrastructure gives us a chance to win local council seats and to build a campaigning base which could help us to win in the future.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Favor comes because, for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress, some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment

I met the surgeon general – he offered me a cigarette.

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it’s just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight – audience, performance, and palace guard.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Sorrow seems more general than it did.

I went to a general store but they wouldn’t let me buy anything specific.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

In general, I like the healthy stuff and don’t really have a problem with any of it.

In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general.

The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, “If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?

If general perception changes from seeing the glass as ‘half-full’ to seeing it as ‘half empty’ there are major innovative opportunities.

The history of Money getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits. In fact, as a general thing, Money getters are the benefactors of our race. To them, in a great measure, are we indebted for our institutions of learning and of art, our academies, colleges, and churches.

As a general thing, I have not duped the world nor attempted to do so. I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that the book will contain as it were the general structure of the universe.

There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition – even when it seems to be doing a little good – we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Under the attempt to perform the impossible, there sets a general disintegration

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

It’s not the generals, it’s the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.

Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular facts, and the highest with some general law, governing everything in the universe. The various levels in the hierarchy have a two-fold logical connection, travelling one up, one down; the upward connection proceeds by induction, the downward by deduction.

A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.

I like boring things

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.