A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.Socrates
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. Mahatma Gandhi
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. E.B.White
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. E.B.White
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them. Michael Eric Dyson
I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for. Amy Jo Martin
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mahatma Gandhi
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.Rabindranath Tagore
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. Joan Didion
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.Lord Chesterfield
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. Logan Pearsall Smith
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle