Characteristic Quotes - page 3

It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy. (Michal Kalecki)
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. View quote
Robin Morgan
Futility is the defining characteristic of life. View quote
Stephen R. Donaldson
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. View quote
Herbert Read
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity. View quote
Confucius
The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner. View quote
Max Beerbohm
The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe. View quote
Harold Innis
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival. View quote
Harold Innis
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds. View quote
Edgar Wilson Nye
Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance. View quote
Oliver Hazard Perry
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." (Richard Baxter)
Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of "justice” but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when "freedom” becomes a special privilege. View quote
Rosa Luxemburg
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch
Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper. View quote
Max Horkheimer
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult-to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many. View quote
Aristotle
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos - the "intellectual sacrifice”- is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of "science” and the sphere of "the holy” is unbridgeable. View quote
Max Weber
The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science. View quote
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically. View quote
Michael Freeman
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. View quote
Robert J. Shiller
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics. (Arthur Henderson)
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. View quote
Denis Waitley
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. View quote
Alan Dundes
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. View quote
Alma Gluck