“It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human af...” — William Godwin Quote

“It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.”

“It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.”

“Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.”

“The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.”

“It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.”