Origin Quotes

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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal
to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found… — Edmund Randolph
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body.… — Jean-Georges Noverre
There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man. — Adolf Hitler
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any… — Paul Davies
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. — Richard Wagner
We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this… — Pat Robertson
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that… — Errico Malatesta
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to… — Lydia Lunch
We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of… — Ludwig von Mises
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was… — Edvard Munch
I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day,… — Miriam Makeba
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has… — Christopher Dawson
To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united. — Pope Pius XII
Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic… — Marc Ian Barasch
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have… — Enrique Lihn
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men… — Heinrich Himmler
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? — Victor Francis Hess

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