"Do you not see, first, that - as……" — Auberon Herbert
"Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?"
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Auberon Herbert
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17 Quotes by Auberon Herbert
Auberon Herbert has 17 quotes on this site.
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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want…
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The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist…
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Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice…
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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons…
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How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the…
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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the…
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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places…
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions…
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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for…
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There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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