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.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

All this talk of equality remains merely on paper. In real life, women are still bound by several psychological shackles and emotional boundaries imposed on them by their families and others. If a girl comes home late, she is asked 100 questions, whereas boys are not answerable for anything. And this prevails across segments.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent.

While the Tan Yan Kee foundation believes that it is merely scratching the surface relative to the gargantuan problems in the education sector, it envisions that one day it will be able to train more teachers and provide much-needed facilities that will transform schools into more conducive learning environments.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.