Merely Quotes

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes.

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.