Fundamental Quotes

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. (Stephen Hawking)
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. View quote
Bertrand Russell
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
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. View quote
Heinrich Heine
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? View quote
Abraham Pais
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. (Amelia Earhart)
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. View quote
Bertrand Russell
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. View quote
Herbert Hoover
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. View quote
Luciano Pavarotti
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars. View quote
Edmund Burke
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results. View quote
John Rawls
A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions. (William Kingdon Clifford)
That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. View quote
William Blackstone
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. View quote
Andy Grove
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. View quote
John Henry Newman