Based Quotes

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. (Baruch Spinoza)
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. View quote
Stephen Hawking
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. View quote
Mike Myers
The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. View quote
Edmund Burke
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. View quote
Margaret Mead
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. (Thomas Merton)
All religions are based on obsolete terminology. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others. View quote
Gillian Anderson
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas-in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. View quote
Edward Abbey
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. View quote
Don Tapscott
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. (Emily Greene Balch)
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. View quote
Mel Brooks
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. View quote
Claude McKay
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them. View quote
Clarence Thomas
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. View quote
Douglas MacArthur