Greater Quotes

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we're no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don't do it so that other will think more of them. They do it because there is no greater joy.

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.