Sole Quotes - Page 7

• I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, Focus, Serious

  21 Copy quote

• Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Real, Love Is, Men

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.27, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

  Martin Luther

  Exercise, May, Doe

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

  Larry Flynt

  Believe, Government, People

  "Don't Execute the Man Who Paralyzed Me (Guest Column)" by Larry Flynt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 17, 2013.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  4 Copy quote

• Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, Bulls, Red

  "The True Story Of How Christian Louboutin Shoes Got Those Trademark Red Soles" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. March 21, 2011.

  115 Copy quote

  Show source

• The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Selfish, Ambition, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Christian, Evil, Effort

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.42

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• As has been stated, the purpose of money is to split barter into two parts so that the seller is free to find his source of supply later and elsewhere. This is the sole purpose of money. Any effort to use money to serve another purpose is perversive; and this statement condemns the entire managed money philosophy.

  E.C. Riegel

  Philosophy, Two, Effort

  4 Copy quote

• Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her body?

  Ayn Rand

  Abortion, Wish, Matter

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.64, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within the caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system.

  Roberto Unger

  Responsibility, Caring, People

  "What Should the Left Propose?".

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  School, Magic, World

  8 Copy quote

• If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Incentives, Corporations, Facts

  “Stephen Colbert must be stopped!” by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spring, Character, Passion

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1861). “Lectures on the Philosophy of History”, p.21

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moment is the sole reality.

  Karl Jaspers

  Inspirational, Reality, Cherish Every Moment

  75 Copy quote

• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.

  Albert Camus

  Fate, Men, Joy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Happiness, Faith, Talent

  7 Copy quote

• We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Conceited, Thinking, America

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.280, Library of America

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Atheist, Mean, Reality

  9 Copy quote

• The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

  Frederic Raphael

  Party, Custodians, Literature

  9 Copy quote

• If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Ideas, Effort

  12 Copy quote

• The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Years, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you were meant to cure cancer or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite God Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter further along its path back to God.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hurt, Children, Cancer

  4 Copy quote

• I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.

  Aimee Mann

  Motivation, Thinking, Greed

  7 Copy quote

• Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Land, Thrive

  'Threnodia Augustalis' (1685) st. 10

  7 Copy quote

  Show source