Merely Quotes

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.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.