Mere Quotes

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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself at my most… — Tom Lehrer
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader… — Adolf Hitler
The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies.… — Adolf Hitler
The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization… — Bertrand Russell
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. — Johannes Tauler
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons… — Roger Rosenblatt
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of… — Daniel Dennett
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no… — Terry Eagleton
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a… — P T Barnum
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place… — Charles A. Beard
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with… — James Mark Baldwin
I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great… — Cat Cora
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as… — Wilhelm Dilthey
One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. — Alma Gluck
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can… — John Grierson
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. — Elvis Costello
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill

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