Quotes about Constitute

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. Votes: 2

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. Votes: 2

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity. Votes: 2

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. Votes: 2

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. Votes: 2

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. Votes: 2

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. Votes: 2

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary? Votes: 2

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Votes: 2

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. Votes: 2

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Votes: 2

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact. Votes: 2

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat. Votes: 2

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Votes: 2

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. Votes: 2

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. Votes: 2

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it. Votes: 2

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. Votes: 2

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. Votes: 2

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. Votes: 2

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. Votes: 2

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences. Votes: 2

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. Votes: 2

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. Votes: 2

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate. Votes: 2

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Votes: 2

Facts do not constitute truth, Votes: 0

Talents constitute our very essence. Votes: 0

Children do not constitute anyone's property: Votes: 0

Numbers constitute the only universal language. Votes: 0

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other. Votes: 0

Absence of failure does not constitute success. Votes: 0

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness Votes: 0

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource... Votes: 0

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge. Votes: 0

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals. Votes: 0

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. Votes: 0

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners. Votes: 0

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy. Votes: 0

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. Votes: 0

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity. Votes: 0

My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future. Votes: 0

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. Votes: 0

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. Votes: 0

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality. Votes: 0

The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. Votes: 0

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others. Votes: 0

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. Votes: 0

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government. Votes: 0

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power. Votes: 0

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. Votes: 0

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius. Votes: 0

To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ... Votes: 0

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. Votes: 0

Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully! Votes: 0

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort Votes: 0

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. Votes: 0

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. Votes: 0

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation. Votes: 0

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error. Votes: 0

But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. Votes: 0

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice. Votes: 0

Analyzing through special insight and realizing the lack of inherent existence constitute understanding of the signless. Votes: 0

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow. Votes: 0

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. Votes: 0

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. Votes: 0

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion. Votes: 0

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Votes: 0

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. Votes: 0

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Votes: 0

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. Votes: 0

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. Votes: 0

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art Votes: 0

Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. Votes: 0

Being gay is not a political accomplishment in itself. It's not enough to constitute a political platform. Votes: 0

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. Votes: 0

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power. Votes: 0

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches. Votes: 0

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. Votes: 0

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it. Votes: 0

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine. Votes: 0

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. Votes: 0

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. Votes: 0

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. Votes: 0

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox. Votes: 0

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love. Votes: 0

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. Votes: 0

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. Votes: 0

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become. Votes: 0

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. Votes: 0

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him. Votes: 0

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority. Votes: 0

Around it are those countries which, according to History, constitute the civilised world ie, a world that can support historians Votes: 0

Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again. Votes: 0

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US. Votes: 0

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. Votes: 0

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. Votes: 0

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. Votes: 0

Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil. Votes: 0

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution. Votes: 0

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. Votes: 0

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. Votes: 0

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality Votes: 0

Imbodied spirits constitute the mankind. It is not restricted to the earth only but instead it inhabits all the worlds in space. Votes: 0

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. Votes: 0

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica". Votes: 0

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected. Votes: 0

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience. Votes: 0

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. Votes: 0

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside. Votes: 0

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. Votes: 0

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected. Votes: 0

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God? Votes: 0

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life. Votes: 0

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. Votes: 0

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate. Votes: 0

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! Votes: 0

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry. Votes: 0

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations. Votes: 0

Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart. Votes: 0

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. Votes: 0

Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence. Votes: 0

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo. Votes: 0

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability. Votes: 0

I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'. Votes: 0

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. Votes: 0

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely Votes: 0

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies. Votes: 0

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters. Votes: 0

The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation. Votes: 0

There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality. Votes: 0

The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation. Votes: 0

The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force. Votes: 0

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. Votes: 0

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science. Votes: 0

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet. Votes: 0

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. Votes: 0

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is human and divine. Votes: 0

The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination. Votes: 0

In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other. Votes: 0

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us. Votes: 0

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics. Votes: 0

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities. Votes: 0

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing. Votes: 0

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief. Votes: 0

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love. Votes: 0

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life. Votes: 0

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society. Votes: 0

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair. Votes: 0

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects. Votes: 0

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people. Votes: 0

Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation. Votes: 0

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations Votes: 0

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war. Votes: 0

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it. Votes: 0

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. Votes: 0

The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life. Votes: 0

Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix. Votes: 0

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy. Votes: 0

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home. Votes: 0

Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication, then such confrontations need not occur. Votes: 0

Global military spending levels constitute an unconscionable use of resources and remain at an all-time high, reaching a total of USD 1.75 trillion in 2012, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Votes: 0

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. Votes: 0

The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine. Votes: 0

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. Votes: 0

Discovering the threads that constitute actual interactions is an essential means of making sense of the world. But perception of overall patterns of things that are contextually related is equally important. Votes: 0

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him. Votes: 0

I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom. Votes: 0

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me. Votes: 0

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'. Votes: 0

lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights. Votes: 0

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn. Votes: 0

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. Votes: 0

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species. Votes: 0

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA. Votes: 0

Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind. Votes: 0

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference. Votes: 0

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home. Votes: 0

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. Votes: 0

The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages. Votes: 0

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. Votes: 0

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'. Votes: 0

The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being. Votes: 0

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal. Votes: 0

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment. Votes: 0

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite. Votes: 0

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. Votes: 0

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. Votes: 0

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it. Votes: 0

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty." Votes: 0

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum. Votes: 0

Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. Votes: 0

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty Votes: 0

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? Votes: 0

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened. Votes: 0

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass. Votes: 0

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age. Votes: 0

Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice. Votes: 0

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world. Votes: 0