Top 1200 Mere Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

We are mere bundles of habits.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation

It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say.

A mere society form of Atheism.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

Everything is mere opinion.

Religion is behavior and not mere belief.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.

A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

The calendar? A mere convention.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

How good is life, the mere living!

Honor, without money, is a mere malady.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Religion is a mere question of geography.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Sachin Tendulkar is a genius. I'm a mere mortal.

I abhor mere prettiness.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Hope, decency, and unity are not mere catchwords.

People can die of mere imagination.

There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.

Mere abuse is no criticism.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.