A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau
Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
Cecil Frank Powell
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John J. Sweeney
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
Margaret Cho
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
Chester Irving Barnard
Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy.
Howard Berman
The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
Mark Millar
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
Placido Domingo
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Alexander Herzen
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi
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