Merely Quotes

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be