
“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of inconvenience, use, people, doing.
“We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
"Freedom of the Park", Tribune (7 December 1945)
“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”
Sec. 158
The Gay Science (1882)
Context: To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Quote in Monet's letter to his art-dealers [[wBernheim-Jeune|G. and J. Berheim-Jeune], Venice, 1912; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 72
1900 - 1920
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
Quoted by Samuel Johnson in the preface http://books.google.com/books?id=j-UIAAAAQAAJ&q=change+%22is+not+made+without+inconvenience+even+from+worse+to+better%22&pg=PT8#v=onepage to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
2015, Naturalization Ceremony speech (December 2015)
President-elect Obama's Weekly Address (20 December 2008) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barackobama/barackobamaweeklytransition7.htm
2008
“The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes inconvenient.”
Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.
I. 3.
Pamela (c. 1750)
Occupation, vol. 3, Society in America (1837).
“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.”
To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
Act I
The Title (1918)
Source: The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts
“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.”
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Letter to Archibald Stuart http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/skjolly/jeffersonianfederalism.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=ZTIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA837#v=onepage&q=&f=false, Philadelphia (23 December 1791)
1790s
Variant: I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.”
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 235
“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man
Variant: Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Source: Emma (1815)
“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
Source: Sweet Silver Blues
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book
“It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.”
Devit v. College of Dublin (1720), Gilbert Eq. Ca. 249; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 176.
"Playmate to Politicians: Take a Bite (and Cool Down)", PETA.org (17 July 2008) https://www.peta.org/blog/playmate-politicians-take-bite-cool/.
Broadcast speech, as quoted in Fourth International http://www.marxists.org/archive/glass/1944/02/japan1.htm Vol.5 No.2 (February 1944).
1940s
Bishop of London v. Ffytche (1800), 1 East, 495.
The Cornerstone Speech (1861)
On naval timber and arboriculture (1831), Appendix F, part II
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
"Why Samsung's Galaxy Tab is 'meh'" in The Guardian (25 July 2011) http://theguardian.com/technology/2011/jul/25/why-samsung-galaxy-tab-is-meh
Russell v. The Mayor of Devon (1788), 1 T. R. 673.
11 How. St. Tr. 1208.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 6-7
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 21, “Answered Prayers” (p. 649).
A Knock on Midnight http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/multimediaentry/doc_a_knock_at_midnight/
1960s, Strength to Love (1963)
“Nature no longer entertains us when conserving it becomes inconvenient.”
[Toward a Pro‐Life Politics, Conservation Biology, 15, 4, August 2001, 827–828, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2001.015004827.x]
Et tu, Gorus? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/10/12/et-tu-gorus/, October 12, 2007.
Other
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 203)
Speech in the House of Commons (25 April 1800), reported in The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. Vol. XXXV (London: 1819), pp. 91-93.
1800s
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 6, Welfare, p. 250
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), pp. 38-39.
Grigby v. Oakes (1801), 1 Bos. & Pull. 528.
From the TV documentary The Importance of Being Morrissey (2003)
In interviews etc., About himself and his work