Basis Quotes

Compassion is the basis of morality. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. View quote
Indira Gandhi
A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. View quote
George Orwell
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. View quote
William Howard Taft
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. View quote
George Soros
Wonder is the basis of worship. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. View quote
Neil Armstrong
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. View quote
Marvin Bower
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. (Thomas Traherne)
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. View quote
James A. Garfield
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. View quote
Herbert Hoover
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. View quote
William Faulkner
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. View quote
Audre Lorde
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. View quote
Marcel Proust
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis. (Gregory Corso)
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis. View quote
Don Tapscott
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. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. View quote
Rollo May
If evolutionary selection is the basis for a belief in profit maximization, 'then we should postulate that basis itself and not the profit maximization which it implies in certain circumstances. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans