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- The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. -- Plutarch
- Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. -- Theodore Bikel
- You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission. -- Jello Biafra
- Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth. -- Julianna Baggott
- Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun. -- William Shakespeare
- Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. -- Thomas Aquinas
- Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Omissions are not accidents. -- Marianne Moore
- The art of drawing is the art of omission. -- Max Liebermann
- Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. -- William Faulkner
- Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. -- Isabel Paterson
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. -- Mark Twain
- Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone. -- Gautama Buddha
- Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day. -- Peace Pilgrim
- The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values. -- Howard Zinn
- Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture. -- Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
- I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation. -- Michael Ondaatje
- Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. -- Isabel Paterson
- The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. -- Marya Mannes
- In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. -- Charles Schumer
- I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain. -- Ellen Page
- The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials. -- John Pawson
- So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code. -- Mark Twain
- As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action. -- Joyce Banda
- In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. -- Charles Schumer
- Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway. -- Robin Marantz Henig
- Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting. -- Paul Hawken
- A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission. -- Marcus Aurelius
- Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
- In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior. -- Elizabeth McCracken
- Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission. -- Myrtle Reed
- I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition. -- Abbas Kiarostami
- The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity. -- Watchman Nee
- I think if you don't say something it's lying by omission. I personally think it's immoral. -- Viggo Mortensen
- The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. -- Abraham Verghese
- It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin. -- Ogden Nash
- No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission. -- Glen Duncan
- Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. -- William Osler
- A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered. -- Josephine Hart
- I do not like [in the new Federal Constitution] the omission of a Bill of Rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for... protection against standing armies -- Thomas Jefferson
- Since mistakes of omission don't appear in the financial statements, most people don't pay attention to them. We rub our noses in mistakes of omission - as we just did. -- Charlie Munger
- Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. -- George Eliot
- Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage. -- Jeremy Collier
- Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did. -- Russell L. Ackoff
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