Home / Topics / Essence Quotes

Essence Quotes

Browse 2761 quotes about Essence.

Essence Quotes

“The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.”

Reason Facts Politics Economy Essence Institutions Property Corporations Liberalism Strain Private Property

Author:Peter S. Grosscup

“The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.”

Two Real Turns Politics Poor Economy Rich Capitalism Essence Competition Profit Real Life Features Abstract Liberalism Killers Profit Maximization

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.”

Past Politics Politician Concern Essence Prudent Transcendentalism Statesmanship Adherence Probing

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.”

Government Political Politics Essence Rivalry Free Government

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams

“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”

Political Lying Politics Essence Deception Deceiving Self Deception Transcendentalism

Book:The Complete Works of John Ruskin

Source: The Complete Works of John Ruskin

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.”

May Politics Strong Objects Essence Words Freedom Of Speech Citizenship Resent Provocative Provocation

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker

“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature