Measures Quotes

486 quotes by 395 authors

The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature of the moment,… — Victor Davis Hanson
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans,… — Eric Hobsbawm
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have… — Andrew Jackson
Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes... It is high time for us to focus our attention… — Hans-Peter Durr
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face;… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very… — Horace Walpole
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates.… — Robert Macfarlane
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth.… — Victor Serge
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures… — Phillip E. Johnson
The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces. — Paul Halmos
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with… — George Mason
So-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem. — William H. Whyte
It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic… — Pope Benedict XVI
We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the… — Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his… — Alexander Hamilton
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desperate times breed desperate measures — William Shakespeare
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described… — Ludwig von Mises
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is… — Mencius
Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost. — Sigmar Gabriel

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