Quotes About Definition

As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated, or written in our DNA, or forced upon us by shitty parents, or careless teachers, or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state, it is a 'property', and when a person is in possession of enough 'property', it sometimes begins to define them.

You defined yourself by your enemy's reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.

Qué es lo que define a un hombre? ¿Cuál es la primera pregunta que se le hace a un hombre cuando quieres informarte de su estado? En algunas sociedades le preguntan primero si está casado, si tiene hijos; en las nuestras, se le pregunta en primer lugar su profesión. Lo que define ante todo al hombre occidental es el puesto que ocupa en el proceso de producción.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

no biblical interpretation is ever developed in a social or cultural vacuum. Most interpretations are autobiographical, where we ascertain the meaning of the text through the telling of our own stories, projecting onto the Bible how we define and interpret the biblical story in light of our own life experiences.

Y qué es el amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason.

Amor definido deja de serlo...

Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

Identity is the engine that drives the relationship not only with ourselves but also with God and others. If your identity is broken, your life is broken. If you define it incorrectly, you will carry that wrong definition into your story. If all you see are your limitations, you will miss out on the stunning possibilities God is creating in front of you.

I am not arguing that everything is political, which would, by making politics ubiquitous, render it a meaningless category. I am also not claiming that anything is either inherently political or apolitical. I am interested here, rather, in how the ways in which politics is defined enable certain phenomena and disallow others.

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

A lady is just a lady. But if you call yourself as a gentleman, then it becomes debatable.

How can we define NOTHING, or how can we prove that zero exists to a small child? Endless loop.

Love must be defined according to each plane, ie the physical, the mental and the spiritual. However, we cannot define or come to understand the love between spiritual beings with that of the corporeal.

The beginning of God is in the definition of energy. We all know that it can't be created nor destroyed, except our God is the absolute one and not changeable in anything else.

The present is short lived. Difficult to define it without disturbing the past and the future events.

The true definition of the word Aryan is not far from the ideologies of natural selection taught in Darwinism. The latter is idolized while the former is demonized by society, but they all speak the same language.

We cannot define the true meaning of the word patience without becoming impatient ourselves.

You need to define yourself first, before knowing your worth. There is no place that can bring you happiness if you are not ready to work towards it.

Your definition of heaven lies wherever your self-interest and happiness dwells.

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.

A cynic once defined a metaphor as 'a simile with the words of comparison left out'.