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What people do in the name of religion is not necessarily religious. It often has baser reasons behind it. — Matthew Reilly

The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion. — C.S. Lewis

I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for. — W.C. Fields

Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women. — Audre Lorde

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore De Balzac

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money ... — Thomas Bernhard

It's never too late to start all over again. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

It was worse
knowing he knew the difference between kindness and cruelty and chose the baser of the two. — C.J. Roberts

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. — Victor Hugo

Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. — Lord Byron

Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating. — Siri Hustvedt

Be the designer of your own destiny. — Oscar De La Renta

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. — William Morley Punshon

Co-opted convictions will always betray you. — Charles M. Blow

Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. — Peter Hoeg

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I casually listen to mixes, but I don't know all the names of the tunes and the producers and stuff. It's hard to keep up with. — Jamie Woon

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature ... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves. — Jon Stewart

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion. — Immanuel Kant

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses. — Mahatma Gandhi

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare

I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself. — Joseph Joubert

The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals. You — Lev Grossman

Your basic Southern Baptist would willingly delay his personal ascent into heaven for the baser pleasure of hanging around to see you burn in hell. — Rick Gavin

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. — Ted Dekker

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. — Jim Leach

I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else. — Mark Martin

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. — Machado De Assis

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government. — Jacob K. Javits

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires. — Michael R. Fletcher

You catch more flies with honey, ever heard of that?" He shrugged. "I don't like flies. They're annoying." He grinned "I'd rather catch hell. — Heather Hildenbrand