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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

- Jane Addams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

- Constantin Brancusi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

- Mohandas Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

- Dalai Lama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.

- Mary Robinson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

- Epicurus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's extremely important that we bring clarity to this question of 'who's in charge' long in advance of an actual crisis, or else the potential for chaos and delay on the scene will be very real if, God forbid, we are actually confronted by one of these nightmare scenarios. So this is not an abstract argument, ... While the Defense Department will have the legal responsibility to assist civil authorities, when requested, in the event of a serious crisis -- and indeed has resources, troops, and capabilities that no other agency can duplicate -- the new rubric outlined in the National Response Plan clearly identifies the secretary of Homeland Security as the guy at the top making judgments about how the federal government will respond.

- James Loy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

- John Keats Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

- Arthur Schopenhauer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

- Henry Flynt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

- Harriet Stowe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... But these memos lead one to question whether he truly appreciated the history of the civil rights struggle. He wrote about discrimination as an abstract concept, not as a flesh and blood reality for countless of his fellow citizens.

- Harry Reid Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's not some abstract thing, to support the arts, ... It's a very vital part of our lives.

- Liz Thompson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everybody is for peace. Nobody says they're against it. But we really wanted to take this abstract idea and put a human face to it, and let people know the idea of peaceful resolution isn't just something that needs to happen on the far side of the globe. It's something that needs to happen here too.

- Michael Graf Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Germany does not need abstract economic ideas it needs labor market reforms.

- Holger Schmieding Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

- David Deutsch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

- Grant Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think it's the greatest form of art, to create a residential building, ... We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there you can't just think about abstract ideas.

- Daniel Libeskind Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are a lot of Christian groups or writers who defend basic theology in the abstract. I'm interested in the ecosystem of understanding we have to live in.

- Ken Myers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle I conform to the nature of God.

- Kenneth Pike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I paint abstract expressions.

- Billy Zane Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

- Michael Ignatieff Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

- Hans Hofmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

- Gro H. Brundtland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We think we think in a very literal way, but if you really ponder it, you don't think in a literal way. You're seeing in a literal way, and you're going from point A to point B, but if you really consciously think back at what was going through your mind when you went from point A to point B, you'll find that it's a very abstract process.

- John Leslie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes