Quotes About Basis

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.

I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.

I don't really miss pitching in games, and I don't think my arm could hold up. I would still love to try the radar gun, just not pitch on a consistent basis. I'd love to go and try to fire up the gun, though.

This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the ideology, you have to attack it on that basis.

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

He remembers that it was said to him, "Our ancestors were animal forms." But he does not remember that these forms were gods. This is the psychological basis for the emergence of Darwinism.

Breaking through the cyclical laws of physical nature is the basis of the spiritual process that Adiyogi explored.

What the mind forgets is that the ability to respond is the basis of life. If the ability is acknowledged willingly, you become blissful. If it happens unwillingly, you become miserable.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

William Jennings Bryan, told the president that "the basis of peace you propose is a new philosophy . . . that is, new to governments but as old as the Christian religion." It would put Wilson, Bryan averred, "among the Immortals.

on the basis of his speech, it would be able to keep all its conquests, using the ones it didn't want as bargaining chips in a final peace settlement brokered by Wilson and the United States.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

I believe in uniting with white revolutionaries to fight against a common enemy, but i was convinced that it had to be on the basis of power and unity rather than from weakness and unity at any cost.

We have opportunities to be used by the living God on a daily basis and I don't need the platform of a concert hall to do so.

Their LLC has good credit and is able to borrow $600,000 without the need for personal guarantees. The loan has the effect of increasing each owner's tax basis by $200,000. Because distributions are taxed only when they exceed an owner's basis, this means that Lisa, Lyn and Lovella can each receive $200,000 in profit distributions tax free from the LLC.

Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as thoroughly.