Mere Quotes

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Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! — Pope John Paul II
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. — Henry David Thoreau
Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of… — Elisabeth Elliot
The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the… — Antonin Scalia
It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this. — Unknown Author
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere… — Larry Harvey
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters — Sandrine Bonnaire
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in… — Diego Rivera
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to… — Kurt Schwitters
Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all… — Peggy Orenstein
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea — Francis Parker Yockey
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit… — Nadia Boulanger
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems… — Sarada Devi
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We… — Carl Jung
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed… — Thomas Merton
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the… — Hirohito
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification. — Richard Wall
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated… — Alan Watts
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the… — Ivan Pavlov

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