Namely Quotes

321 Namely quotes by 269 unique authors

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that… — Mike Nichols
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal. — Adolf Hitler
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get… — Sam Sheppard
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here… — Thomas Paine
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a… — Abraham Maslow
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the… — C.S. Lewis
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves… — Noah Feldman
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. — Socrates
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were… — Walter Isaacson
Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding… — Aristotle
... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may… — Plato
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the… — Unknown Author
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special… — Hippocrates
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. — Charles Darwin
The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or… — Charles Darwin
The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to… — A. V. Dicey
The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary… — Noam Chomsky
My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority… — Dallin H. Oaks
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never… — Stanley Hauerwas
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral… — Viktor E. Frankl

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