Merely Quotes

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.