Quotes by Liable Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. Anthony Sampson liable monarchy egyptian Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms. Arthur Conan Doyle liable blood art If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too. Clive Stafford Smith liable criminals government I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. David Knopfler liable punishment college Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation. Edward Bellamy liable crisis years Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it. George D. Prentice liable cowardice courage We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. Henry Fielding liable reading book The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Henry David Thoreau liable government people In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions. Isaac Newton liable philosophy science All power in human hands is liable to be abused. James Madison liable presidential hands True charity is liable to excesses and transports. Jean Baptiste Massillon liable excess charity In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. Jean Antoine Petit-Senn liable secrecy secret You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. Jerry Coleman downsizing liable asks The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. John Tillotson liable controversy anger One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. John Ruskin liable disease thinking In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty. Joseph Stalin liable death-penalty law You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do. Kristin Cashore liable causes helping Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. Lord Acton liable atheism sin None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. Luc de Clapiers liable second-thoughts mistake The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live. Ludwig von Mises liable perfect doe 12»