Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.
Greg Egan

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Kevin Kelly

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.
Marcus V. Pollio

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
Josiah Royce

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Pope John Paul II

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
Mikhail Bakunin

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
Robert Trout

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Francois Fenelon