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I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.
It’s not the appearance, it’s the essence. It’s not the money, it’s the education. It’s not the clothes, it’s the class.
The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self.
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!
The essence of health is inner balance.
Mystery is the essence of divinity
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.
To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny.
Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity
If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.
Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.
Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man’s carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Justice is the essence of peace
Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.
War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich – and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people’s lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.