The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.
What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. " "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. " Sarissa said. "It is today.
A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.
Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
We've even lost the definition of immigration. "Immigration" today, if you listen to the left, equals anybody who wants to come into the country should be allowed. That's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration, and we ought to all oppose it.
This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality. . . . Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it. . . . when this solidarity exercises its force, our personality vanishes, as our definition permits us to say, for we are no longer ourselves, but the collective life.
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.
Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.
Everybody has a different definition of the good side.
You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing
There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.
The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.
HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.