Basic Quotes

To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically – for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist – but then what isn’t?

I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria.

The first and most basic rule is to consider social facts as things.

School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.