Higher Quotes - page 5

It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle classes of society efficient in the demand for material products. (Thomas Malthus)
I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. View quote
Yann Martel
It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. View quote
Luigi Pirandello
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things. View quote
Russell L. Ackoff
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power. View quote
Alfred Adler
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism. View quote
Anastas Mikoyan
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. View quote
Matthew Simpson
Through artists mankind becomes an individual, in that they unite the past and the future in the present. They are the higher organ of the soul, where the life spirits of entire external mankind meet and in which inner mankind first acts. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it - neither higher nor lower. View quote
Simone Weil
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man. View quote
Bruce Lee
With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved. (John Rawls)
The difference principle, for example, requires that the higher expectations of the more advantaged contribute to the prospects of the least advantaged. View quote
John Rawls
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace. View quote
John Ruskin
Siphonophores do not convey the message-a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism-that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts intimately connected and interacting in some higher, ineffable harmony. Nature revels in boundaries and distinctions; we inhabit a universe of structure. But since our universe of structure has evolved historically, it must present us with fuzzy boundaries, where one kind of thing grades into another. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould