Mere Quotes

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

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.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.

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

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.