Mere Quotes - Page 21

• In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

  Pope John Paul II

  Design, Catholic, Coincidence

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• Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Life And Death, Abortion

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Technology, Gossip

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.221, Graphic Arts Books

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• Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of work itself, days on which we celebrate work by declaring our freedom. In a manner of speaking we announce that on this one day we may rest from our work, and without pressure or guilt, we may be glad. A holiday is a holy day-meant for rejoicing in God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christmas, Holiday, Holy Days

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• The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

  Antonin Scalia

  Opportunity, Monopoly Power, Competition

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• It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.

  William Cowper Prime

  Fishing, Doe, Sake

  William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143

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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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• Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters

  Sandrine Bonnaire

  Character, People, Everyday

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  Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

  Diego Rivera

  Pride, Thinking, Done

  Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Taken, Color, Play

  "Abstract Art". Book by Anna Moszynska, p. 68-69, 1990.

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• Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Player, Reality, Self

  "I Tweet, Therefore I Am" by Peggy Orenstein, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Ideas, Liberalism, Critique

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.276, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Age, United States, Spirit

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• The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

  Sarada Devi

  Men, Play, Differences

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Doe, Prejudice

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• Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Perfect, Emotion

  Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.26, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

  Hirohito

  Race, People, Legends

  Address denying his divinity, 1 Jan. 1946

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• I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.

  Richard Wall

  Eye, Sociology, Justification

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• We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Soul, Consciousness

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• From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Ice Cream, Swag, Eating

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• Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

  John Dryden

  Philosophical, Learning, Math

  John Dryden, George Saintsbury, Sir Walter Scott (1892). “The Works of John Dryden: Poetical works”

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• The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Purpose, Useless, Consciousness

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• It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Essence, Guilt, Liberty

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• Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.

  Thomas Hodgskin

  Dog, Men, Hunting

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