mere Quotes

“Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.”

“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.”

“People can die of mere imagination.”

“What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.”

“The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.”

“Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.”

“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”

“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”

“Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”

“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.”