#mere

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#conferred #habit #liberty #merely #privilege

I do not give money for just mere hopes. ↗

— Terence

#hopes #i #i do #just #mere

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#deeply #look #love #many #men

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cannot #declarations #desired #doubt #into

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#declarations #desired #doubt #mere #no doubt

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#been #care #else #everyone #going

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation. ↗

— Guy Debord

#directly #lived #mere #once #representation

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#away #beauty #desert #feel #gas

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#europe #india #merely #powerful