Least Quotes - page 24

If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too! (Yuri Gagarin)
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution - at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot. View quote
Barack Obama
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared. View quote
Wilhelm Keitel
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism - at least in the sense of this work - is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the "past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality. View quote
Max Scheler
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values. View quote
Leo Strauss
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions. View quote
Leo Strauss
Many things between Heaven and Earth fill me with wonder; but of all of these, the least wondrous to me are the wonders of Religion. (Karlheinz Deschner)
Oh, my soul! why art thou so often disquieted within thee? How is it that thou hast so little faith? Wilt thou never learn that Jesus has even the least of His little boats always under His watchful eye, and all the winds and the waves obey Him? View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price. View quote
Stefan Zweig
The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. View quote
J. D. Salinger
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which upon the whole must be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record. View quote
Winston Churchill
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
I don't know how to lie. But I don't know what truth is, either. I always try to speak the way I think will cause least trouble to God and men. View quote
Halldór Laxness
Hypotheses are what we lack the least. (Henri Poincaré)
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. View quote
Walt Whitman
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned. View quote
Ian Fleming
How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about. View quote
John Galsworthy