Forms Quotes

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.