Definitions Quotes - Page 16

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Go out there and see where the world needs your touch. That kind of meaning not only makes you feel more connected to your environment on a local scale, but also to yourself - whether you can operate from something beyond the definition that others might place on you.

By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon

The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.

Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality.

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.