All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthur

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
Gerald R. Ford

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
Mel Brooks

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Christopher Walken

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
Meryl Streep

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
Carroll Quigley

The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
Phil Harris

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.
Phil Harris

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Neale Donald Walsch

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
Neale Donald Walsch

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
Robert Mugabe

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
George Harrison