In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.
Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.
It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.
[Your] search for meaning in the world... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.
Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
