Aristotle Quotes

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

Aristotle

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• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

  

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• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

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• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
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• India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
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• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
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• A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Luxury
  • Necessity
  • Jet

• Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Always
  • Door
  • Necessity

• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Problem
  • Necessity

• Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Value
  • Excess

• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Political
  • Peace

• What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Success
  • Control
  • Cold

• Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Family
  • City

• People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Wall
  • Abuse

• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  

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• To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Religion
  • Mankind
  • Necessity

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Future
  • Giving
  • Problem

• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • More
  • Object

• With few words, one can speak the truth.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Speak

• When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Driven
  • Necessity
  • Excess