#rely

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#conclude #fundamental #human #i #institutions

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #conservatism #filling #inside #means

I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#bring #home #i #i believe #our

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. ↗

— Hans Kung

#including #misused #often #purely #religion

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights. ↗

— Hans Kung

#declaration #essence #ethic #however #human

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#counted #ever #invented #man #most

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #calls #conscience #follows #his

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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