Quotes About Scope

Logical Positivism: An early-twentieth-century school of philosophy that limits the scope of philosophy to the scientific method (empirical verification) and logic. Everything else philosophy once considered, such as metaphysics and ethics and theology, is tossed out the window as unverifiable and therefore meaningless.

When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to jump. Violence will become more random and localized. Organized crime will grow in scope.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Pullman shook his head and patted his pack. "Why do you think my AWOL bag goes everywhere with me? I've got everything but my pickle suit inside, including my own CSS scope." "What's a CSS scope?" "Can't see shit," he said.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

I have never been someone who chooses a film according to the language. Since I am comfortable with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, the scope of the film is all that matters to me.

People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach.

I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.

I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

You could call it the one big box, outside which there isn't another box.

You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

In fact, philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher.

There are endless opportunities in life.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

Just as with the Maghribis, the clan's ability to enforce contracts is a success on one level in making trade possible when no formal institutions are available. But on another level, the reliance on enforcement inside the clan retarded the development of formal laws and institutions that would have made available a much greater scope of trade—such as between clans.

For the apocalyptic mind, there isn't a secular molecule in the universe, no matter outside the scope of its coming kingdom, no nook or cranny exempt from the redemption it announces. Neither Jesus nor any Jewish prophet ever instructed his listeners to merely repent "spiritually.

knowledge has the unique ability to take aim at a distant target and utterly transform it while having scarcely any effect on the space between.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.