Essentials Quotes - Page 51

It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even so, I believe what is truly essential to the success of any relationship is not so much compatibility, but love. When you love someone, virtually anything is possible.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature.

In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.

Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.