Equivalent Quotes

Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic. (Arthur C. Clarke)
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. View quote
Bill Watterson
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. View quote
Ayn Rand
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
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. View quote
Robert Nozick
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? (Stephen King)
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. View quote
Hesiod
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. View quote
Lewis Mumford
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. View quote
Maajid Nawaz
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. View quote
Aldous Huxley
In classical Arabic and in the other classical languages of Islam there are no pairs of terms corresponding to lay and ecclesiastical, spiritual and temporal, secular and religious, because these pairs of words express a Christian dichotomy which has no equivalent in the world of Islam. View quote
Bernard Lewis
His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst. View quote
Kelley Armstrong
Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one - or take equivalent action, I suppose. View quote
Tom Clancy
So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation. View quote
William James
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese. View quote
Frank Zappa
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. (Simone Weil)
We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world... If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictorial equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self. View quote
Mark Rothko
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour. View quote
Gerhard Richter
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." View quote
Jimmy Wales
PENSION - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. View quote
Samuel Johnson