Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.