Sole Quotes - Page 11

• The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

  Benito Mussolini

  Needs, States, Reserves

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• The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

  David Lloyd

  Pride, People, Gentleman

  Speech in Limehouse, East London, on July 30, 1909. The Times, p. 9, July 31, 1909.

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• Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Responsibility, Giving, Justice

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• The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

  Adam Smith

  Gold, Benefits, Silver

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.400, Harriman House Limited

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• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

  Adam Smith

  Purpose, Ends, Wealth Of Nations

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.4, ch.8.

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• It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact. Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money. I'm concerned about values - moral, ethical, human values - my own, other people's, the country's, the world's values. Having money now gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

  Johnny Carson

  Country, Silly, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

  Gore Vidal

  Class, Majority, Problem

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.45, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Grace, Fruit

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

  Winston Churchill

  Hopeful, Prophet, Disposition

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

  O. Henry

  Writing, Giving, Secret

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• My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

  Henry James

  Wish, Posts

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.806, Harvard University Press

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• The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.

  Bhagat Singh

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mean, Men, Law

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• The United Nations remains the sole universal international organisation designed to maintain global peace. And in this sense it has no alternative today. It is also apparent that it should adapt to the ever-changing world, which we discuss all the time: how it should evolve and at what rate, which components should undergo qualitative changes. Of course, I will have to or rather should use this international platform to explain Russia's vision of today's international relations, as well as the future of this organisation and the global community.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Community, Vision

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Sole and self-commanded works,
  Fears not undermining days,
  Grows by decays,
  And, by the famous might that lurks
  In reaction and recoil,
  Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Flames, Ice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

  John Stuart Mill

  People, Desire, Produce

  1863 Utilitarianism, ch.4.

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• The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

  H. L. Mencken

  Party, Office, People

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.209, Knopf

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Purpose

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• It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Entrepreneur, Technique, Demand

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.193, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.

  Barbara Brandriff Crabb

  Religious, Prayer, Taken

  "Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional". www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Believe, Ambition, Destiny

  "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

  Ice Cube

  Rap, Acceptance, Thinking

  Interview with Linda Saetre, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

  Ouida

  Joy, Religion, Action

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Heart, Light

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