Seeks Quotes

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.