Namely Quotes
321 Namely quotes by 269 unique authors
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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate…
— Pope Pius XI
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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on,…
— David Hume
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Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind…
— Noam Chomsky
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There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word…
— Noam Chomsky
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then…
— James Surowiecki
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We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call…
— Naum Gabo
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I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely,…
— Unknown Author
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In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
— Bertrand Russell
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation,…
— C.S. Lewis
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No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time…
— Douglas Hurd
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It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half…
— B. C. Forbes
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The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of…
— Harry Mulisch
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But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was…
— Georg Brandes
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Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us…
— Oswald Chambers
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In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of…
— Arthur Danto
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
— Igor Stravinsky
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There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This…
— Alois Podhajsky
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The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its dual system of…
— Edith Starr Miller
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Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course…
— George W. Merck
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