Merely Quotes

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.