Mortimer Adler Quotes

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Mortimer Adler

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• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • College
  • Student
  • Tuition

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • You
  • Easy

• If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Man
  • Study

• In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Politics
  • Battle

• Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Time
  • War
  • Enemy

• However, as if all the suffering was not enough, I was also accused of the death and misery of my own loved ones, my Gujarati brothers and sisters. Can you imagine the inner turmoil and shock of being blamed for the very events that have shattered you!

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Death
  • Suffering

• ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκηποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα

  

  Aeschylus

• 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• Gutenberg made all history available as classified data: the transportable book brought the world of the dead into the space of the gentlemen's library; the telegraph brought the entire world of the living to the workman's breakfast table. (p. 15)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Book
  • History

• To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Free
  • Freedom

• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Possess

• I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Numbers

• True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

  

  Mortimer Adler
  • Freedom
  • Discipline
  • Impossible