Negative Terms

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or terms:

“The idealist’s programme of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

“For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,
I’ll gild it with the happiest terms I have.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)