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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.
The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.
Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.
We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.
When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.
Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.
Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.
America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.
Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.
The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.
In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.
In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.
The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
The fate of our democracy rests on our ability to protect voting rights for all citizens.
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
I repeat that no greater immediate responsibility rests upon members of the Church, upon all citizens of this republic and of neighboring republics than to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.
National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.
Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.
Cabinet government rests on the principle of collective responsibility: Ministers debate and argue in private but then hammer out a common policy which they all agree to support.
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
Clearly we could devastate the world... as far as we know, the Earth is the only place in the universe where there is life. Its continued survival now rests in our hands
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown
“Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
