Characteristics Quotes

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I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.… — Unknown Author
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath… — James F. Cooper
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it. — Derek Bailey
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to… — Ludwig von Mises
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom… — Ludwig von Mises
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic… — Gene Wolfe
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that… — Flannery O'Connor
Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done lately - this… — Tom Peters
One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with… — Nathaniel Branden
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. — Benjamin Disraeli
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. — Christian Lous Lange
As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly… — Jonathon Porritt
The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. .… — Ibn Ata Allah
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means… — August Spies
I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological… — Judith Butler
The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell. — William Stringfellow
One can only understand history and all of social life, including today’s social life, if one pays attention to people’s racial characteristics. And one can… — Rudolf Steiner
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. — Margaret Thatcher
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the… — Richard P. Feynman
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. — Dmitri Mendeleev
When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence — Enrico Fermi
The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For… — Tom Robbins
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by… — Kenneth Burke

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