#eli

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#career #coincide #doing #get #good

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#be careful #because #believes #body #careful

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development. ↗

— Margaret Murray

#call #civilized #development #growth #human

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#common #common sense #day #forced #give

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ↗

— Bhagavad Gita

#greed #hell #inspirational-religious #lust #anger

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. ↗

— Taslima Nasrin

#also #democracy #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration. ↗

— John Negroponte

#been #believe #close #consideration #explicit

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel