Burden Quotes - Page 5

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

I find all this money a considerable burden.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

To ease another's burden, help to carry it.