Demonstrably Quotes

With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed. - John Carman

When a war is long-lived and the outcome is not demonstrably positive, the lines of argument available to a president are seriously constrained. Democrat or Republican, 1960s or early part of the 21st century, you're going to hear a common rhetoric. - Kathleen Hall Jamieson

What I said is demonstrably true. The record and votes that I cited on behalf of Senator Kerry are easy to cite and check. President Bush's record of honorable discharge from the National Guard is also just as easy to check. This kind of political discourse is reprehensible. - Ed Gillespie

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? - Richard Dawkins

These two things are demonstrably false. Yet overwhelmingly, that's what the troops see as our rationale for being there. - Barron Boyd

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. - Pamela Hansford Johnson

The private sector is making millions each week out of its contracts on the Tube. Yet it is not only failing to deliver promised improvements but has also demonstrably failed to maintain a crucial safety system to acceptable standards. - Bob Crow

The idealist's program 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

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. - Edward O. Wilson