#above

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#activist #agenda #ahead #hard #ideological

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. ↗

— Asa Gray

#animal #below #join #lines #loop

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#acts #bravery #certain #enthusiasm #heroism

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#nuclear #politics #protecting #rises #terrorism

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it. ↗

— Corey Hart

#also #am #born #composed #experiences

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#above #being #dignity #due #enough

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#certainly #christian #god #love #neighbour

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#above #being #being pretty #compensation #getting