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“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.”

Source: The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?

“In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.”

People Growing Information Tools Mere Profit Prime Amenities Information Society

Book:Re-Inventing the Corporation

Source: Re-Inventing the Corporation

“God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.”

Given Pure Mere Conception Utterance

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.”

Ifs Men Should Years Christian Hours Lord Struggle Progress Holy Thousand Mere Strive Saint This Life Purity Holiness Orthodox Thousand Years Modest Beginners

Book:Symeon New Theologian

Source: Symeon New Theologian

“Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and soothed. Courage has been instilled and fear has been implanted. Lives have been destroyed and others changed for the better. Think back on your own life when words have hurt you deeply or have comforted and given you strength and hope to do better.”

Thinking Has Beens War Feelings Given Hurt Changed Communication Mere Destroyed Power Of Words Been Hurt Strength And Hope Tender Feelings

Author:Randall Wright

“It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.”

Mean Values Courses Economic Land Relation Philosophical Regard Mere Admiration Ethical Without Love Love Respect Economic Value

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass.”

Art Ideas Pieces Risk Painting Mirrors Mere Glasses Boring Hung Demonstration

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.”

Power Design Gun Madness Mere Possession Accidents Urges Fright Bravado

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).”

Science Used Term Learning Mere Acquire Tails Pope Superficial Hunters Consulting Allusion Eels Superficial Knowledge

Author:Tobias Smollett

“Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.”

Ifs Spiritual Flower Masters Offers Empty Mere Surrender Symbols Temples Spiritual Life Spiritual Masters

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.”

Way Should Writing Helping Spiritual Mistake Practice Records Meditation Written Habit Bed Faults Mere Evening Devoted Documents Diaries Transactions Spiritual Practice Good Habits

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.”

Way Writing Firsts May Made Order Literature Mistake Known Media Achievement Mere Patterns Made It Code Greek Visuals Printing Transmission Supposing New Media Supposing That

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.”

Has Beens Funny Media Television Taste Mass Mere Alas Pretentious Mass Media Irreverence

Author:Tom Lehrer

“The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.”

People Young Levels Leader Opinion Principles Democracy Movement Organization Majority Mere Rejects Nazi Majority Rule

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.”

“The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.”

Thinking Law Military Civilization Eternal Europe Mere Delusion Superiority Asia Tempted Laws Of Nature

Book:The Problem of China

Source: The Problem of China

“Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.”

Believe Prayer Mere Psalms Beads Reciting Babbling Prayer Beads

Author:Johannes Tauler

“For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.”

Wells War Country Moments Home Worry Battle Mere Mood Realization Poison Casual Incessant

Book:The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

“If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind Humans Long Has Beens Stills Machines Mere Resistance Mysterious Triumph Human Mind Thinker Matched Human Thought Mysterious Ways

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”

Book Reading Space Reader Mark Mere Pens Flawed Positively Shameful Enabling Repressed Derivatives Antithesis

Author:Terry Eagleton

“There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.”

Men World May Loses Morning Streets Concerned Gold Luck Mere Purses Liable Morrow

Book:Art of Money Getting

Source: Art of Money Getting

“I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.”

Men World Humanity Dies Challenges Men And Women Tragedy Mere Convinced Supreme Cruelty Curious Heritage Magnificent Bogs

Author:Charles A. Beard

“Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.”

Important Soul Matter Reason Form Order Next Steps Principles Essentials Mere Latter Identifying

Book:History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation

Source: History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation

“I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.”

Made Home America Used Minutes Ready Battle My Family Mere Contact Ice Iron Cream Chef Ice Cream Liquid Freeze Nitrogen Iron Chef Liquid Nitrogen

Author:Cat Cora

“No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.”

Real Reason Knowing Blood Subjects Activity Flow Mere Veins Hume Blood Flow

Book:Introduction to the Human Sciences

Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences

“One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.”

Doe Goal Study Mere Accidents

Author:Alma Gluck

“My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.”

Would Be Individual Process Loss Views Achieve Function Mere Planning Capitalist Initiative Socialist Entering Absorbing Central Planning Interim

Author:John Grierson

“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep arms, and by substituting a regular army in the stead of a resort to the militia. The friends of a free government cannot be too watchful, to overcome the dangerous tendency of the public mind to sacrifice, for the sake of mere private convenience, this powerful check upon the designs of ambitious men.”

Source: A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States

“I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.”

Kissing Shadow Mere Former Selfishness Crave Silhouettes

Author:Elvis Costello

“Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.”

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.”

Culture Opinion Aim Mere Substance Public Opinion

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.”

Age Political Example Mere Knees Customs Refusal Strength Of Character Nonconformity

Book:J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

“America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality." It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past.”

Government America Past Greatness Depends Authority Constitution Mere Dues Separation Divided Separation Of Powers Systems Of Government Centerpieces Technicalities

Author:Richard Allen Epstein

“How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.”

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

Literature Causes India Asking Mere Disappear

Author:E. M. Forster

“Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.”

Want Love Literature Youth College Mere University Love One Another Oxford Cambridge Inmates

Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End

“A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.”

Giving Persons Doe Causes Activity Mere Criminals Probable Cause Propinquity

Author:Potter Stewart

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