Undue Quotes


Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

Pleasure admitted in undue degree enslaves the will nor leaves the judgment free.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly deferentially and without undue fanfare.

Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1 000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought by undue haste by lying by hatred by wishing ill to anybody.

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us when we are suffering undue affliction only serves to increase our pain and to render our grief more poignant.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure be it mental or material adventure is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience tolerance optimism joy in the other's achievements confidence in oneself and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

Control does not come from strong police forces does not come from oppression and repression does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained too concentrated or too direct.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

O painter skilled in anatomy beware lest the undue prominence of the bones sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

And you know almost in a perverse way I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who in fact were exercising that.

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.