V Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with V. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.”
“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.”
“Voltaire hablaba del derecho de los ciudadanos a expresar su opinión y a hacer la crítica del poder. A eso se le llama libertad de expresión. Sin embargo, la manera en que le hables a tu vecino no entra en esa categoría. Ahí hay siempre una frontera natural: el Otro. En todo lo que digas, en todo lo que hagas, has de tener en cuenta al Otro. Naturalmente que puedes ignorarlo, pero eso tiene sus consecuencias. Una de las más comunes es la hostilidad, el odio y, en algún momento, incluso la guerra. Y que te ocultes detrás de Voltaire, no ayuda.”
Source: Otra vida por vivir
“Voltaire rejects all systems, and suspects that “every chief of a sect in philosophy has been a little of a quack.”
“The further I go, the more I am confirmed in the idea that systems of metaphysics are for philosophers what novels are for women.”
“It is only charlatans who are certain. We know nothing of first principles. It is truly extravagant to define God, angels, and minds, and to know precisely why God formed the world, when we do not know why we move our arms at will."
"Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.”
Source: Essay on Marxian Economics
“Voltaire said you know who is in control by what you can't say.”
“Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.”
“Voltaire was a smart cookie.”
“Voltaire's novel [Candid] offers us parallel universes, the possibility of entering into alternative worlds existing side by side, and this is something quite modern. Nested narratives and parallel universes are popular at the moment in many different art forms.”
“Voltiana cooed, "I could make your gown like the Phoenix, so that at midnight it would burn. Of course, you'd be walking around naked afterward, but we all must suffer for art".”
Source: A Poison Dark and Drowning
“Voltou noventa minutos mais tarde e conseguiu trabalhar com uma mão, fazendo muito capazmente mais de 150 jantares à la carte. Fiquei satisfeito com esta demonstração de lealdade. Trabalhar mesmo com dores e ferimentos conta muito para mim.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”
“Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.”
“Volume II, Chapter 4
"How unwise had the wanderers been, who had deserted its shelter, entangled themselves in the web of society, and entered on what men of the world call "life,"—that labyrinth of evil, that scheme of mutual torture. To live, according to this sense of the word, we must not only observe and learn, we must also feel; we must not be mere spectators of action, we must act; we must not describe, but be subjects of description. Deep sorrow must have been the inmate of our bosoms; fraud must have lain in wait for us; the artful must have deceived us; sickening doubt and false hope must have chequered our days; hilarity and joy, that lap the soul in ecstasy, must at times have possessed us. Who that knows what "life" is, would pine for this feverish species of existence? I have lived. I have spent days and nights of festivity; I have joined in ambitious hopes, and exulted in victory: now,—shut the door on the world, and build high the wall that is to separate me from the troubled scene enacted within its precincts. Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave "life," that we may live.”
Source: The Last Man
“Volume in your hair is sexy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be that Brigitte Bardot kind of volume - it's just that nice texture up top that gives it some life and body to it.”
“Volume without value isn’t marketing. It’s clutter.”
Source: Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won
“Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“Volumes are spoken when nothing is being said.”
Source: No Mercy: A Powers and Johnson Novel
“Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.”
“Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.”
Source: First Principles: Great Philosopher
“Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.”
“Voluntad de amor: esto es aceptar de buen grado incluso la muerte.”
“Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.”
“Voluntary association is the tool society uses when its members are free to behave as they will. Government is the tool society uses to force its members to behave in certain ways. Cloaking the tool in the civility of democracy does not change its essence, as a democratically elected government only appears non-threatening to the majority. This is not to say that government is not a necessary and useful tool. It is to say that it is an extremely dangerous one.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Voluntary communism, together with laissez-faire capitalism, has nothing to be ashamed of on moral and economic grounds. They can each hold up their heads, high. Far from enemies, they are merely opposite sides of the same voluntaristic coin. Together, they must battle state coercion, whether called State Capitalism or State Socialism. The point is, “left” vs. “right” is a red herring. The reddest and perhaps most misleading red herring in all political-economic theory.”
Source: The Case for Discrimination
“Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?”
“Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.”
Source: Ben Shapiro: Volume I
“Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.”
“Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.”
“Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.”
“Voluntary Quicksand
I read the Chronicle this morning
as if I were stepping into voluntary
quicksand
and watched the news go over my shoes
with forty-four more days of spring.
Kent State
America
May 7, 1970”
Source: Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
“Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.”
Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.”
“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.”
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.”
“Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind.”
“Volunteer. Sometimes the jobs no one wants conceal big opportunities.”
Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.”
“Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.”
Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation
“Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.”
“Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.”
“Volunteering is so pervasive it's invisible. We take for granted all the things that have been pioneered by concerned, active volunteers.”
“Volunteering is the scenic route to success.”
Source: Making Bread Out of Straw: How to Succeed with Almost Nothing by Helping Others, Thinking Creatively, and Ignoring Obstacles
“Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness”
Source: Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
“Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.”
“Volunteers are caring friends”
“Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working to revive damaged ecosystems is transforming and strengthening their relationship with the rest of nature.”
“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.”