#merely

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#merely #more #speech #than #ways

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#backwards #efficient #going #means #merely

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#become #cannot #man #merely #wishing

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. ↗

— Robert Bork

#another #another way #basic #being #democracy

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#entitled #i #merely #prerequisite #privacy

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#defined #disease #event #god #immensity

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. ↗

— Les Brown

#bait #business #commerce #communications #day-to-day

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#duties #established #few #merely #protection