Quotes About Balance

Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Hidup itu ialah kelancaran hubungan diri dengan luar diri.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

Übertreibung und Maßlosigkeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus diskreditiert den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus.

Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert.

Prävention, die das Recht konsumiert, hat den Zug zu Totalität und Exzessivität.

In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

Sicherheit ist die gut ausbalancierte Freiheit aller.

Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either.

the whole of culture — may be of great value in itself, but whenever it is thrown into the balance against the kingdom of heaven, it loses all its significance.

The church's holiness must not be sacrificed for its catholicity, and the church's catholicity may not be surrendered in favor of its holiness. For in denying either, we lose both. Both attributes by nature characterize the one Christian church.

He who hesitates is lost. There is no real truth in that statement, of course. Any kind of a generalisation is more or less half-baked, including this one. Truth of necessity requires the exposition of both of two opposing points of view.

We are running this planet like a business in liquidation.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.

The economy has gotten bigger, the ecosystem has not. How big has the economy become relative to the ecosystem?

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

According to Calvin the human voice exceeds all soulless instruments by far. While acknowledging that music is indeed apt to touch the human heart, his fear of contaminating the praise of God overrules this concession.[122] He fears that, by using musical instruments, the correct balance would be disturbed between the joy caused by music and the joy due to the praise of God.[123] It should quickly be added though that Calvin has no objections about playing on musical instruments at home.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.