Constitute Quotes
277 quotes by 244 authors
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Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions…
— Elbert Hubbard
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When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them…
— H. L. Richardson
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To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their…
— Aristotle
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed,…
— Joseph Butler
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At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power…
— Murray Rothbard
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on…
— Anne Tyler
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But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute…
— Paul Tillich
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art
— Maurice Ravel
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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must…
— Henrik Ibsen
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.
— Marie-Louise von Franz
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Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.
— Donna J. Haraway
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Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.
— Charles Sumner
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Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social…
— Joseph Roth
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. Â This is the true self. Â Every other identity is illusion. Â God's love for you…
— Brennan Manning
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The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that…
— Thomas Berry
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