238 Mere Quotes for You to Enjoy

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Walter Scott

Knowledge History Mechanic Lawyer Possesses Some Architect He Mere Mason Venture Call Himself Without May Literature Working

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nature Achieve Power Goodness Mere Against Little

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. George Whitefield

Christ Our Churches Morality Mere Most Preached Heathen Jesus Jesus Christ

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. Marie Curie

Natural Impress Though He Mere Tales Also Him Fairy Fairy Tales Scientist Were His Laboratory Child Natural Phenomena Confronting Technician Phenomena

We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product. Robert Kennedy

Achievement Progress Will National Worldly We Cannot Neither Find Spirit Economic Purpose Mere Goods Continuation Nor Personal Endless Cannot Personal Satisfaction Average Product Gross Measure Satisfaction

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. W. E. B. Du Bois

Education Training School Matter Walls Men Single Definite System One Thing Object Mere Develops House Schools Within Without Does Nor Human Which Whole Thing

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence

Death Creation Down Every Tree Alive Destroys Would City Abolish Parasite Rise Horror Throws Mere Ideal Until Another Existence Up Itself Accumulate Goes Mankind Rear Multiply Swollen Million Save

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse

Long Joke Enough Mere Just Eternity Moment

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns

Politics Leadership Management Ethics Divorced Mere Reduced Technique

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Noam Chomsky

Respect Evil Crushed Young Teenager Types Our Some Propaganda Hysteria Mere Like Self-Image Vermin Were Blond Germans Ants Just After Japanese Appalled Utterly Early Imaginary Treated

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. Giacomo Casanova

Love Love Is Sometimes Other Pleasure Kind Immortal Lies Arises Mere Does Real Inevitably Real Love Goes After Sensual Stale Fantasy

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri Frederic Amiel

Man Passion Before Latent Possibility Give Mere Like Force Without Shock Iron Which Forth Spark Flint Awaits

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. Karl Marx

World Object Mere Him Bureaucrat Manipulated

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip. Marquis de Lafayette

Time Topic Sight Would One Time Obedient Given Horse Perfect Throwing Mere Make His Essay Depicted Whip Rider Describe Whom

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. Thurgood Marshall

Doors Assure Proper Mere Adversary Access Does Courthouse Itself Process

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. William James

Will Become Young State Would Give More Could Habits Mere Soon How Conduct Walking While Heed Realize Plastic

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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