Grounds Quotes

360 quotes by 315 authors

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life, — Mildred Fay Jefferson
A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand… — William Henry Chamberlin
The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only… — Georg Hermes
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its… — James Joseph Sylvester
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation. — Timothy Radcliffe
Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person… — William Kingdon Clifford
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me. — Joseph Epstein
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.… — Albert Schweitzer
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I… — Randy Newman
They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it. — Larry Nelson
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. — Richard Wagner
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness… — Bill Griffith
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper… — David Hume
We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out. — Jimmy Webb
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of… — Jamake Highwater
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was… — George Wald
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the… — Hamid Karzai
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external… — Nathaniel Branden
In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated — Wallace Mercer

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