Quotes of: Merely Keyword

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Daisaku Ikeda

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

David Brooks

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Aldous Huxley

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

Frances Wright

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Raoul Vaneigem

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

Frank Moore Colby

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Friedrich Schiller

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Crystal Eastman

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

C.G. Jung

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

H.L. Mencken

When you live for yourself you are merely surviving; when you live for others you are really living.

Debasish Mridha

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

E. M. Forster

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

George Whitefield

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Herbert Butterfield

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Jean Paul

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

Jeffrey Tucker

Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.

John Thai