Essence Quotes

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

You can’t lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

We cannot save people. But we can love them. And this is the highest expression of our essence.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

Managing the power of choice, with all it’s creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.