Basic Quotes - page 8

Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society--its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions. (Peter Drucker)
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives. View quote
Peter Drucker
With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe. View quote
Peter Drucker
The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It. View quote
Martin Buber
The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou. View quote
Martin Buber
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
We must now establish the basic principles, the basic values and beliefs which hold us together as Canadians so that beyond our regional loyalties there is a way of life and a system of values which make us proud of the country that has given us such freedom and such immeasurable joy. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted. View quote
Claire Danes
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. View quote
Karl Marx
Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever. View quote
Alan Kay
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation. (Albert Einstein)
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. View quote
Albert Einstein
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness. View quote
S. I. Hayakawa
I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation. View quote
Gerald Ford
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. View quote
John F. Kennedy
As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the "quality of life" ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient. View quote
Michael E. Porter
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. View quote
Martha Beck
In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not. View quote
Matthew Hussey
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' (Neale Donald Walsch)
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life. View quote
Andrew Weil
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. View quote
Tom Chatfield
Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable. View quote
William H. McRaven
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. View quote
Walter Russell Mead