#greater

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#democracy #essence #fighting #greater #own

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. ↗

— Aesop

#greater #mind #smaller

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#atomic #been #chemical #conclusions #could

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#flow #greater #more #strongly #supposition

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#based #belongs #conceptual #consciousness #deeper

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fortune #greater #look #may #otherwise

I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#because #being #certainly #children #come

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#although #back #been #boring #certainty

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#ever #greater #hiroshima #intellectual #journalist

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. ↗

— Charles Schwab

#better #criticism #did #effort #exalted