Merit Quotes - Page 6

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

The more merit, the less affection.

...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

There's always merit to having a debate.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.