Quotes by Essence Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This is not simply an economic matter. In essence it is an ethical and moral question, for whoever takes the important economic decisions in society ipso facto determines the social priorities of that society. Jimmy Reid governmentessencepeople The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life. Jo Ann Emerson compassionessencejustice The love is the part of us that can never go. It's the essence that was always there, so that can never go. Jimmy Cliff essencelove-is Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth. Joan Halifax essencesoulspiritual I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words. Joanna Lohman few-wordslabelsessence Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction. Joan Jett artistessencesong Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words. Jimmy Carter essencegodthinking Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth' Joe Strummer rocksessenceattitude In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne. Joel Beeke essencelawcharacter The essence of being human is being creative. Joel Garreau evolutioncreativeessence Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence. Johann Joachim Winckelmann coloressenceshould-have Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace. Johann Joachim Winckelmann essencegracebeautiful Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses. Johann Kaspar Lavater limbsessencefirsts Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things. Johan Huizinga thoughtfulessenceamerica The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through. Joe Biden partyessencehands The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message. The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally. John Berger essencesongorder God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world. John Adams awfulessenceworld The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman. John Carpenter essencefearbelieve If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone. John Cheever fogessencesorry When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form John Adams republicessencegone«4243444546474849505152»
