Merely Quotes

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

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

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.