Still Less Quotes
50 quotes by 45 authors
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still…
— R. H. Tawney
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as…
— Isaac Asimov
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The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither…
— Winston Churchill
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,…
— Alexander Herzen
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If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?…
— Henri Poincare
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My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that…
— Dalai Lama
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No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply…
— Thomas Huxley
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced by force, and…
— Jonathan Schell
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Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say…
— S. D Gordon
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I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a…
— Anthony Eden
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Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner…
— D. H. Lawrence
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My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
— Thomas Merton
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After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
— Thomas Merton
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Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
— Thomas Merton
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The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion…
— Giambattista Vico
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