A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Government welfarism, with its ever-increasing army of pensioners and other beneficiaries, is fatally easy to launch and fatally easy to extend, but almost impossible to bring to a halt - and quite impossible politically to reverse, no matter how obvious and catastrophic its consequences become.

Henry Hazlitt

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

Horace

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Carolyn Heilbrun

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

T. H. White

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Shyam Selvadurai

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.

Honor Blackman

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

Mason Cooley

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

Zig Ziglar

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Don Marquis

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

William Barclay

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

C. S. Lewis

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

Tom Robbins

Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come.

Piyush Goyal

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

Robert W. Service

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

David Suzuki

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

Maya Angelou

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