#sole

Either war is obsolete, or men are. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#men #obsolete #war

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#absolutely #absolutely not #acceptable #anything #argue

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#awesome responsibility #decide #democracy #die #go

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗

— Joseph Story

#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#deceiving #does #effect #executed #insincere

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. ↗

— Maya Lin

#longer #me #mind #mine #part

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#give #god #had #her #least

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music. ↗

— Macklemore

#comes #fame #great #i #make

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#anew #create #endeavor #everything #see

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#characters #experience #imaginary #imaginary characters #imagination