#merely

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customs #existing #merely #people #roman

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#cast #chains #enhances #free #live

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#merely #opium #religion

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#elements #fact #facts #ideas #matters

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#certain #contingent #darwin #evolution #merely

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cannot #does #erase #fit #merely

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#amenable #any #body #concerns #conduct

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#conquest #consequence #established #foreign #institutions

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end