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“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.”

“The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.”

“Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.”

Self Happens Found Levels Generations Example Organization Intelligent Scary Significant Things Happen Realms Complexity Causation

Author:Hugh Ross

“When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Made Ideas Progress Example Source Depends Slavery Come Up Crowds Arguing New Ideas

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.”

Inspirational Humans Moments Spirit Wonderful Share Example Buddhism Creating Jazz Characteristics Human Spirit Judgmental Cool Things Respect Each Other Non Judgmental

Author:Herbie Hancock

“I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.”

Feels Player Fans Example Football Type Musician Baseball Obligation Baseball Player Football Player

Author:Bob Dylan

“Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.”

People Ifs Knows Want Feels Mean Ends Car Example What You Want Reducing Means To An End

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness.”

People Example Equal Madness Blow Extremes Terrorism Reactions Unconscious

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There are certain things in there that no one else would recognize, really. I see details of my life that I didn't even intend to put in when I was doing the work. For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in The Death-Ray is based on somebody I went to high school with.”

Kids School Certain Example High School Details Rays

Author:Daniel Clowes

“There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.”

People Crazy Achieve Example Solo Crossings Being Crazy Crazy Things

Author:Orlan

“When the bad stuff was really intense in my life, it was really what you would call writer's block. Your facility is just not as good because you feel so bad. I've heard of people right on the verge of suicide coming up with some of their best work. I wish I could think of an example, other than Van Gogh, perhaps!”

People Thinking Feels Wish Stuff Heard Example Suicide Intense Block Vans Facility Best Work Verge Writer's Block Bad Stuff

Author:John Fogerty

“Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.”

Thinking Important Country Technology Example Gains Trade Productivity Drivers Free Trade Developed Country

Author:Peter Thiel

“If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.”

People Ifs Ends Hard Government Stuff Class Impossible Middle Example Program Middle Class Receiving Entitlement Back Again Entitlement Programs

Author:Fred Thompson

“I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.”

People Ifs Doe Care Used Wish Sound Example Reflection

Author:Prince

“Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.”

Firsts Children Important Use Parent Roles Example Models Our Children Role Models Cliche Being A Role Model Good Role Models Male Role Models

Author:Lee Haney

“We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.”

Way America Example Ignorance Advantage Patterns Corruption Cruelty Avarice Treachery Inhumanity Incline Inexperience

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”

Has Beens Courses Education Steps Cases Progress Example Organization Universal Paid Credit Technique Backwards Notable Aeroplanes Wireless Universal Education Debit

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.”

Men Heart Play Seems Might Christian Faith Belief Christianity Example Welcome Relief Tombs Predestined

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.”

People World May Whole Enjoy Conditions Example Institutions Prosperity Extravagance

Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.”

Want Needs Should Children Two Real Asks Easy Parent Sleep Responsibility Example Television Bed Satisfied Toys Pits

Author:Haim Ginott

“Example is better than following it.”

Example Following

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.”

Mean Fate Sea Example Possibility Tomorrow Battle Divides Be Or Not To Be

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.”

People Children Age Action Fun Ability Middle Conditions Example Our Children Intelligence Setting Factors Settings Your Children Delay Middle Ages Setting An Example

Author:William Faulkner

“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”

People Ifs Made Stills Different Suffering Left Example Bears Raises Jew Holocaust Doomed

Book:The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

Source: The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

“Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind.”

Heart Seems Sides Hours Natural Sun Mankind Example Keys Stones Setting Settings Hills Clock Reasonable Twelve Centre Stopping Noon Dine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.”

Philosophy Literature Interesting Principles Example Philosophical

Author:Mason Cooley

“I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.”

Book Reading Enjoy Example Argument Here And There

Author:Mason Cooley

“Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.”

Reality White Example Ideals Garden Paint Imperfection Realism Mud Gowns Specks White Gown

Author:Mason Cooley

“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.”

People Believe Country Seems Wanted America Example Identity Hero Band Series Myth Heroic Ancestor

Author:James A. Baldwin

“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.”

“The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.”

May Children Ends Artist Grows Parent Example Train Plant Average Dancer Chickens Stakes Ballet Wire Right Direction Accountants Massachusetts Ballet Dancer Certified Public Accountant

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.”

Purpose Growth Technology Economic Example Innovation Engines Factories Electricity Economic Growth Steam Complementary Cascade Steam Engines Redesign

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.”

Ifs Ends Moments Bigs Might Kids Night Enjoy Example Sweet Amount Couple Conscious Deny Coffee Teeth Ice Bowls Cream Ice Cream Craving Mug Sweet Tooth Coffee Mug

Author:Summer Sanders

“Don't just tell your kids to be active and to get outside and play. Lead by example.”

Play Kids Example Active

Author:Summer Sanders

“I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'”

Knows Looks Home Running Kids Example Son Mom Exercise Skins My Son Coming Home Sweat Bike Helmet Sweating

Author:Summer Sanders

“Every word that judges value is circular. 'Good' is 'right' is 'proper' is 'just' is 'good'. But check the examples, and they're not circular at all: Every one says 'makes me happy'.”

Values Example Judging Checks Make Me Happy

Author:Richard Bach

“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.”

“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.”

Men World Hard New York Example Mouths Universal Sells Instinct Prime Conspiracy Urban Eyebrows Herds Birthright Pavement

Book:1949-1959

Source: 1949-1959

“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.”

Thinking World Humans Differences Human Beings Perfect Streets Example Source Newspapers Journalism Thoughtful Thinker Artificial Typical Superficial Main Street

Author:Gertrude Stein

“One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.”

Real Facts Vision Example Red Sight Relation Assumption Why Not Relative Being Real

Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.”

Men Character Behinds Teach Example Men And Women Lofty Character Of A Man

Book:Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

Source: Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance

“Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Form Spirit Literature Pleasure Cases Example Expression Letters Originals Dresses Critical Substance New Ideas Deprived Cliche Commonplace Often Is

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.”

Moving House Feet Example Brother Bears Died Filled Newspapers Classic Distinction Trash Collectors

Author:Russell Lynes

“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.”

Way Doe Self Feelings Turns Process My Own Attention Brain Consciousness Cases Example Particular Supposed To Be Self Conscious Foreheads Self Consciousness

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.”

Ifs Has Beens Views Impossible Subjects Example Negative Direct Roots Ill Point Of View Mysterious Squares Imaginary Units Obscurity Magnitude Adapted Inverse Square Roots

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.”

Example Good Times Having A Good Time Flawless Anglers

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.”

“It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence