Merely Quotes

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.