Quotes About Willfully

Society and culture are therefore not true opponents of each other. Rather society is a species of culture that persists in contradicting itself, a freely organized attempt to conceal the freedom of the organizers and the organized, an attempt to forget that we have willfully forgotten our decision to enter this or that contest and to continue in it.

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect, Mr. Darcy, is to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

This is for your stubborn insistence on willfully endangering us both." Smack!

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

Love was willfully blind and made fools of men.

But when we are faithful to keep ourselves in His holy presence, and set Him always before us, this not only hinders our offending Him and doing anything that may displease Him, at least wilfully, but it also begets in us a holy freedom, and, if I may so speak, a familiarity with God, wherewith we ask, and that successfully, the graces we stand in need of. In

It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.

Cabaud was charged with "willfully and knowingly causing and allowing the violations of the law" that Warms and Abbott were charged with.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them.

And your defect is to hate everybody.' 'And yours,' he replied with a smile, 'is willfully to misunderstand them.

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

lying willfully, adamantly, without distress or regret, and with absolute disregard of consequences can be a bulwark if not a fail-safe defense.