B Quotes
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“By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness
“By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.”
Source: 100 Selected Stories
“By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.”
“By ring-fencing a time budget for a momentous ‘breathing space’ in the flurry of our life, we may encounter ourselves and take the time to fill the gaps in the framework of our individuality so as to reconcile the qualities of our personality. ( "What after bowling alone?”
“By routinely spending more time immersing in your thoughts, you may begin to gain clarity over matters you were previously clueless about. This may lead you to become more efficient at work and smarter with resources, and you may even gain a deeper understanding of how you should move forward.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.”
“By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.”
“By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness”
“By sabotaging logic, the common frame of reference, and the common language, we have removed a "safety valve" that allows cultural divides to be resolved.”
“By sacrificing half of his physical vision, Odin was able to gain higher vision. He traded lower perception for the ability to perceive the non-physical. Where will you go to find knowledge? What price will you pay? What sacrifice will you make? Knowledge is not for the faint-hearted. The highest knowledge is only for the gods. Are you one of them, or do you shun all difficult challenges and remain bound to the earth as a rotting carcass like all the others? The twilight of empiricism is here. Odin finally realized that he needed no eyes, and no senses at all, to understand reality. Reason and logic were all he required.”
Source: Holenmerism and Nullibism: The Two Faces of the Holographic Universe
“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley
“By Sami Abouzid
I have never been to music school. I went to the Sami Abouzid School—the best school in life. I taught myself everything I needed to know to create symphonies, compose soundtracks, and produce hits in many languages. I am the best teacher I ever had.
No one in this life will ever teach you something truly powerful for your soul. The majority in this field chase money, business, and ego—no emotions, no artistic vision, no eternal goals. In music, jealousy runs deep. When you create something amazing, they don’t say, “Well done.” They look away. I’ve never met a musician who reached out with genuine happiness for me.
Years ago, singers walked into my family store, heard my music, and left in shock when they learned it was mine. That’s why I have no friends in music—I am my own best friend. And I’m lucky for that.
This month, on my birthday, I will reward myself by releasing 10 albums worldwide in one shot—to show every person who said, “You can’t,” that I can. I came to America with one song. Now I have 1,000 songs, 10,000 versions, and 672 soundtracks—created my way, not theirs.
God bless America. Thanks to Allah, I conquered my dreams.”
“By Sami Abouzid
True love does exist, yet the noise of this world makes it difficult for many to believe. Every day, we are surrounded by endless distractions—voices that tell us what love should be, how it must look, how it must behave. But to me, love has never been about rules or expectations. It is about the purity of feeling, the freedom of giving without demanding, and the joy of holding someone in your heart without needing anything in return.
This belief runs through all my creations—my films, my soundtracks, my songs, and my books. They are not just artistic works; they are reflections of a soul that adores the idea of love without conditions. To imagine true love, even if it exists only in thought, makes me deeply happy. That happiness is enough to inspire me to spend countless nights alone in the studio, writing, composing, and dreaming.
Love without expectations is eternal—it cannot be broken by distance, by time, or by circumstances. It simply exists, quietly, powerfully, and beautifully. It is the heartbeat behind my art and the endless source of my creativity. In this noisy world, my message is simple: true love is real, if only we dare to believe.”
“By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be happy. Suffering is not a value in itself, but a reality that Jesus teaches us to live with the correct attitude.”
“By saying I love you doesn’t mean that I do it till it proven by action so avoid to jump the conclusion wait for me to express my real feelings.”
“By saying Make in India, we are not only inviting companies for cost-effective manufacturing, but also giving them an opportunity of a large market for their products.”
“By saying only good things about the deceased during their funeral, we make it seem as if they were perfect … and are being auctioned.”
“By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. but would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.”
Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
“By saying that not experiencing discrimination is an unearned privilege, it implies that some people deserve to be discriminated against. It gives the impression that you must earn the right to be treated equally to others.”
Source: IDiots: How Identity Politics is Destroying the Left
“By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.”
“By saying ‘this is wrong’, one is selling (wasting away) an invaluable human life!”
“By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.”
“By saying your religion is the only right religion, you only prove, your religion is the wrong religion.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“By saying your religion is the only right religion,
you only prove, your religion is the wrong religion.
Religion as an excuse for separation is always wrong,
till you transcend religion, all faith is delusion.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.”
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy
“By scolding, one will not tell you the truth and use deceit. All this deceptions in the world are created due to scolding.”
Source: Avoid Clashes!
“By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.”
“By seeing a same-sex couple in ordinary situations, that it might make people think twice about if they have, you know, questions about acceptance of LGBT equality, it's one way to just say that, you know, 'We're members of your family and gay people are like anybody else.'”
“By seeing and improving the system, we create leverage.”
Source: SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game
“By seeing differently, we do differently”
Source: The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire
“By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.”
“By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished". We too can then have "finished [our] preparations," having done the particular work God gave each of us to do.”
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.”
“By seeing the beauty of nature you touch the eternity within you.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense forgets his own name, dares not believe in himself, finds being himself too risky, finds it much easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, along with the crowd.
Now this form of despair goes practically unnoticed in the world. Precisely by losing oneself in this way, such a person gains all that is required for a flawless performance in everyday life, yes, for making a great success out of life. Here there is no dragging of the feet, no difficulty with his self and its infinitizing, he is ground smooth as a pebble, as exchangeable as a coin of the realm. Far from anyone thinking him to be in despair, he is just what a human being ought to be. Naturally, the world has generally no understanding of what is truly horrifying.”
“By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.”
“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
“By seeking forgiveness from about ten people, at different times as a part of my personal transformation effort, I realise that in those moments, when I sought their forgiveness, by forgiving me they too had glowed in their own light. It was mutually a very enhancing experience.”
“By seizing every opportunity for kindness, forgiveness, healing, and love that crosses my path each day, I hope that my death, although perhaps sad for some, will be gracefully concluded.”
Source: A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
“By seizing hold of the lever of self esteem, however, the Market has made the urge to consume essentially unlimited.”
Source: Is the American Dream Killing You?: How "the Market" Rules Our Lives
“By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.”
“By self-transformation, I don't mean spiritually bypassing yourself or others. I mean actual, genuine growth and transformation, which is often ugly, messy, uncomfortable, and at times painful.”
Source: Mastering Magick: A Course in Spellcasting for the Psychic Witch
“By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.”
“By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.”
“By sending Lenin to Russia our (German) Government had, moreover, assumed a great responsibility. From a miliaty point of view his journey was justified, for Russia had to be laid low. But our Government should have seen to it that we also were not involved in her fall. The events in Russia gave me no cause for complete satisfaction. They considerably eased the military situation, but elements of the greatest danger still remained.”
“By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.”
“By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.”
“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms