Term Quotes

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. (Benjamin Franklin)
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. View quote
Lysander Spooner
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. View quote
Winston Churchill
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. View quote
Charles Darwin
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. View quote
James K. Polk
What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. View quote
Joan Miró
Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society. View quote
John Rawls
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite ... to the attainment of the ends of such power. (Alexander Hamilton)
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. View quote
Martha Graham
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. View quote
Ansel Adams
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music. View quote
Nina Simone
Term limits aren't enough. We need jail. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. View quote
Howard Gardner
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. View quote
Albert Ellis
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. View quote
John Coleman
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. View quote
Christopher Lasch
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. (Peter L. Berger)
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours. View quote
Ichiro Suzuki
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. View quote
Harry Mathews
The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance. View quote
Michael Burgess
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies