Quotes by category:Definitions

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

J. Philippe Rushton

arbitrary definitions race

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

Jack Harlan

weed definitions men

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

Jack Kingston

logical definitions arguing

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

Jack Paar

flattery immigration definitions

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

Jackie Kennedy

definition-of-happiness enjoy definitions

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

Jack Canfield

definitions purpose soul

For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules.

Jacob Bannon

unapologetic band definitions

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

Jacqueline Briskin

easier definitions done

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Jacques Monod

definitions vision science

Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.

Jacques Ellul

definitions unique organization

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

Hillary Clinton

definitions mean people

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

James Agee

cancer definitions sea

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

James Bovard

definitions class people

The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.

James Carroll

definitions silence memories

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

James Carroll

definitions stories memories

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

James C. Collins

good-to-great definitions average

Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.

James A. Baldwin

definitions may way

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

James Cook

definitions different insanity

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

James Lipton

definitions genius should

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

James Madison

definitions tyranny