A Quote by Anatole France

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

Anatole France

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Anatole France
French - Novelist
April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

John Adams

Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.

John Thorn

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.

Charles Ruff

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

Alice Duer Miller

A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any government, would be an unsafe and improper depositary of the NATIONAL INTERESTS.

Alexander Hamilton

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Lord Byron

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Ray Bradbury

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

John Dalberg-Acton

In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.

Leo Sayer

For most people, political activity is a secondary activity - that is to say, they have something else to do beside attending to these arrangements. But the activity is one which every member of the group who is not a child nor a lunatic has some part and some responsibility.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

Kay Redfield Jamison

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

Alberto Gonzales

Honestly, I try to think about when I first got into wrestling, and I remember Wrestle Mania VI being the first time that I watched Wrestle Mania as it happened.

Box Brown

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.

Aretaeus of Cappadocia

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Walter Savage Landor

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

Eliza Haywood

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