Sought Quotes

648 Sought quotes by 518 unique authors

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate… — Thomas Piketty
Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests… — Ralph Raico
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of… — Benjamin Disraeli
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a… — John Boyle O'Reilly
I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who wrote… — Alan Keyes
Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force. — Immanuel Wallerstein
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI
The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the… — Pope John Paul II
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for… — Max Lucado
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in… — James Madison
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a… — John Burroughs
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the… — Thomas Jefferson
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong… — Stephen Foster
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half… — Harriet Martineau
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of… — Wallace Pratt
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan
Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach. — Albert Einstein
We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things… — Unknown Author
My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way… — Alice McDermott

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