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  • Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. -- Charles Schumer
  • The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. -- Lord Acton
  • In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service. -- Ernst Toller
  • If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death. -- Lord Byron
  • He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. -- George Washington
  • I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. -- Joseph Heller
  • All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. -- Sophocles
  • I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. -- Ryan White
  • Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. -- Eugene V. Debs
  • In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit. -- Jamie Redknapp
  • Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. -- Salvador Dali
  • To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed. -- Willie Stargell
  • Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power. -- Michael Foot
  • Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. -- Michael Gove
  • I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work. -- Peter Jackson
  • The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern. -- Charles Ruff
  • To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. -- James Whistler
  • Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. -- Roger Ascham
  • The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. -- James Allen
  • Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. -- William Wycherley
  • I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long. -- Vivek Wadhwa
  • George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record. -- Peter T. King
  • My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
  • But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. -- Lysander Spooner
  • The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids. -- Angela Featherstone
  • The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. -- Nikola Tesla
  • When you get to the end of a TV series, you feel totally out of sorts as an actor. You feel unfit; your voice box has collapsed on you because you've spent all day muttering into a microphone that's two inches from your head, and you feel desperate to spread your wings and do a bit of real thesping. -- Kevin Whately
  • The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern -- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
  • Every class is unfit to govern. -- Lord Acton
  • An angry man is unfit to pray. -- Nachman of Breslov
  • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. -- Frederick Douglass
  • Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief. -- Hillary Clinton
  • He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Problems become unfit when you place them under your feet -- Constance Chuks Friday
  • The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity. -- Anatole France
  • Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. -- Mary Mapes Dodge
  • The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. -- Francis Bacon
  • Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit. -- Margaret Sanger
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  • Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate. -- Anne Mateer
  • He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship. -- Franz Kafka
  • Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. -- John Dryden
  • Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. -- Idries Shah
  • The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else. -- Chris Rose
  • A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. -- John Adams
  • Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable ... -- Anne Bosworth Greene
  • Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control. -- Margaret Sanger
  • The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • My God, Donald Trump is unfit! He's ill-tempered, he's unsuited, he is not qualified, he's unsuited to be president. -- Barack Obama
  • Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live. -- Clarence Darrow
  • It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in the sinking of the unfit. -- Felix Riesenberg
  • It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor, -- Rahm Emanuel
  • If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child. -- Doug Stanhope
  • Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. -- John Harvey Kellogg
  • The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness. -- Marianne Moore
  • The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work. -- Thorstein Veblen
  • The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl
  • Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote. -- Warren G. Harding
  • To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. -- Fabius Maximus
  • It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath. -- John Thorn
  • Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change. -- Nicolas Chamfort
  • I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility. -- Cyril Connolly
  • That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey. -- George MacDonald
  • Maybe 50 or 60 percent of all divorces are predicated on someone's being physically unfit. Who wants to live with negativism? Love goes out the window. -- Jack LaLanne
  • Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances. -- Rachel Cohn
  • We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state. -- Antisthenes
  • Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government. -- John Stuart Mill
  • A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal. -- Nikola Tesla
  • Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves! -- Richard Baxter
  • That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. -- Eduard Hanslick
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  • Rick Perry said Donald Trump is unfit to be president and called for him to immediately withdraw from the race. Then he said, 'And that's coming from ME!' -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes. -- Corrie Ten Boom
  • Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve. -- Anne Bonny
  • A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch. -- John Adams
  • Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit. -- William Ralph Inge
  • Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers. -- James Guida
  • A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead. -- Mark Ruffalo
  • These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive proofs of the necessity of some institution that will blend stability with liberty. -- James Madison
  • Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. -- Margaret Sanger
  • Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides. -- Rachel Carson
  • The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that. -- Vivian Gornick
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