Pastoral Resources

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

What is the value of your existence?

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.