Defined Quotes - Page 38

• Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Fear, Desire

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell: A Fresh Look at Empiricism 1927-42”

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• The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, People, Attendance

  "Cameron rejects archbishop's broadside" by Hélène Mulholland, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

  Jerry Saltz

  Light, Water Lily, Giving

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• Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Military, Philosophical, Numbers

  "On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération, June 22, 1953.

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• Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

  Jessica Savitch

  Character, Texas, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

  Eric Schmidt

  Views, Choices, Loser

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• God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

  Huston Smith

  Jesus, Confined

  "Huston Smith's painful spiritual odyssey" by John Blake, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2009.

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• On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Thinking, Degrees, Answers

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  In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

  Thomas Szasz

  Animal, Kingdoms, Totems

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.65, Transaction Publishers

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• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Essence, Labels

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

  Leon Trotsky

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Fall

  Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, George Saunders (1977). “Portraits, political & personal”

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• So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

  Alan Watts

  Loving Yourself, Self Love, Realization

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• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Simone Weil

  Doors, Tyrants, Morality

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.

  Johnny Weir

  Sex, Believe, Sleep

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Twenties, Firsts, Century

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.6, Penguin

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• There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Differences, Tower Of Babel, Towers

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• When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Missing, Who We Are

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• Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

  W. H. Auden

  Expression, Feelings, Might

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• There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Passion, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

  A.C. Grayling

  Mind, Age, Middle

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• The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
  "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Believe, Zippers

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1932.

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• Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Passion, Men

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• And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

  John Grisham

  Fighting, People, Drug

  John Grisham (2000). “The Brethren”, Doubleday Books

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• The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.

  James Madison

  War, Government, Order

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