Standpoint Quotes

210 quotes by 190 authors

It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly… — Patrick Steptoe
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. — Mahatma Gandhi
To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have… — Henry Ford
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The… — Adolf Hitler
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
I don't think it's too late for 'The War of the Worlds' to come true. I'm talking about it from the standpoint that which you… — Dwight Schultz
Certainly from the ????standpoint of a Republican, itâ€™s a winner. Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election. The way Democrats win, they… — Rick Santorum
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall… — Charles Tupper
I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted… — Dick Cheney
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. — Alonzo Mourning
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
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal… — Alfred North Whitehead
This was an extremely difficult decision as I take great pride in representing our country. I know that I owe it to my USA Basketball… — Kevin Durant
The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on… — Charles Stanley
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from… — R. D. Laing
People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women… — Dustin Lance Black
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a… — John Updike
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint. — Derek Magyar

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