You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.
You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.
I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
I really do not know. I really do not know how to solve the problem of the Philippines. I cannot be the savior of this republic.
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior.
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.
Stability and a prosperous life cannot be set off against a set of political rights and freedoms.
