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  • The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

    Ignorance   Pride   Evil  
    M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.302, Random House
  • The greatest sin is carelessness.

    "Playboy Interview: Linda Ronstadt". Interview with Jean Vallely, www.ronstadt-linda.com. April, 1980.
  • Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

    War   People   Liberty  
    "Bush’s Wars". www.counterpunch.org. September 21, 2001.
  • I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she handled emails, that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties.

    Country   Jobs   Believe  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

    Powerful   Men   People  
  • There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

    Mistake   Men   Hands  
    George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.23, Lulu.com
  • We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.

  • A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it

    "Considerations on Representative Government". Book by John Stuart Mill (p. 6), 1861.
  • A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

    Suicide   Strong   Wine  
    John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.171, Harper Collins
  • There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.

    Hurt   People   Sides  
  • Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

    Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.

    Girl   Moving   Boys  
    Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.89, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
  • We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong move at any point, even if it's only a small tack to the side. We absolutely cannot afford carelessness, lest we risk becoming lost ourselves.

  • Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

  • It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

    Truth   Lying   World  
    Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.67
  • Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

    Use  
  • Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.

    Children   Garden   Self  
  • The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

    Memories   Heart   Men  
    Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
  • We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

    Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.169, Penguin
  • Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

    Healthy   Firsts   Care  
  • I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

  • Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

    Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
  • Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

  • More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

    Harry Vardon (2001). “The Complete Golfer”, p.163, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

    Forgiving   Done   Saws  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.110, e-artnow
  • Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

    "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".
  • Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

    People   One Day   May  
  • She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only she herself, but all users and makers are accountable for its demise. In her country children have bitten their tongues off and use bullets instead to iterate the voice of speechlessness, of disabled and disabling language, of language adults have abandoned altogether as a device for grappling with meaning, providing guidance, or expressing love.

    Love   Country   Children  
    Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993
  • To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

    Parent   Tragedy   Loses  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

    Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.20, John Wiley and Sons
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