Basis Quotes - page 2

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. (John Roberts)
Work at the same time upon water, sky, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. View quote
Camille Pissarro
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. View quote
Odilon Redon
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding. View quote
Henry James
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage. View quote
David Attenborough
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. View quote
George Washington
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. View quote
George Washington
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. View quote
George Washington
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. View quote
George Santayana
Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players' countermoves are likely to be. (John Harsanyi)
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Envy is the basis of democracy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking. View quote
Edward de Bono
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view. View quote
Kurt Gödel
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic. View quote
Gottlob Frege
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before-which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you. (Carroll Quigley)
...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. View quote
Federico Fellini
Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth. View quote
Baldur von Schirach