Definition Quotes
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
Aung San Suu Kyi
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Linda Ellerbee
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
Francois Hollande
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
Arlen Specter
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Arthur Koestler
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Malcolm Boyd
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
Henry A. Wallace
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Hillary Clinton
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James A. Baldwin
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
Mitt Romney
I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
Ajay Naidu
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.
Steve Jobs