Rests Quotes

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

During the rests - pray.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.