Basic Quotes

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. (Confucius)
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. View quote
Wernher von Braun
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. View quote
Arthur Miller
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. View quote
Warren Buffett
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. View quote
Stephen Harper
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. View quote
Václav Havel
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. View quote
Frank Zappa
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. (Gertrude Stein)
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge. View quote
Marvin Bower
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. View quote
Edward Hopper
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program... View quote
Poul Anderson
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss. View quote
Dylan Moran
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. View quote
Carl Sagan
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about. View quote
Brandon Boyd
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation. View quote
Peter Drucker
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. (Nicholas Stern)
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. View quote
Ulrich Beck
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. View quote
K. Eric Drexler