Concepts Quotes
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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
Murray Rothbard -
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
Rudolph A. Marcus -
It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
Sarah Dessen -
In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.
Bill Gates -
To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.
Wilfrid Sellars -
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.
Nicholas D. Woodman -
The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.
Evo Morales
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Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts of human life will follow in the wake of this new knowledge.
David Lilienthal -
The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.
Nguyen Minh Triet -
I love colors... as much as I love concepts.
Genco Gulan -
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
Kay WalkingStick -
I believe in two concepts: Everything in moderation and break a sweat every day.
Ariana Madix -
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
Wilhelm Wundt
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My process with starting a new project and whatnot is I begin around a title. Usually, based off of just a title, I'm able to put together themes and concepts from there. I've always admired Hunter S. Thompson's titles for his books. They're always wordy and pretty elaborate.
Alexander Spit -
The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.
Carolyn Maloney -
Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
Hannah Arendt -
One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.
Calvin Miller -
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
Ernst Mayr -
If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
Lois McMaster
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The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.
Terence McKenna -
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words.
Sunil Nagaraj -
In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me that we have long reached the point where we theologians only talk to ourselves and debate with our own history of concepts.
Eugen Drewermann -
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
Richard Matheson