There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
That Jesus of Nazareth died upon a cross is mere matter of history; that He who did so die was the Christ… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave him to be the source of all your dreams… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming,… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is no walk in the park or mere drum-beating and gong-clanging. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge,… — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image