Top 100 Quotes About Founded
#1. Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
George Bernard Shaw
#2. When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.
Todd Park
#3. All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.
Mikhail Bakunin
#4. All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.
Baron D'Holbach
#5. Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.
Noah Webster
#6. All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.
Thomas Paine
#7. I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
Reed Hastings
#8. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
Harold Bloom
#9. True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#10. Real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
Agnes Repplier
#11. For this reason no intelligent student of history could doubt that Cain could have founded not only some sort of a city but even a large one, at a time when the lives of mortals were prolonged to so great an age. But
Augustine Of Hippo
#12. The land is ours": that is pretty much the end of the debate. "I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel,
Naftali Bennett
#13. Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .
Isaac Newton
#14. My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
Uzo Aduba
#15. I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
Maajid Nawaz
#16. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.
Kevin Mitnick
#17. A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.
Edward Gibbon
#18. Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from ... instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.
Thomas Jefferson
#19. That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame De Stael
#20. All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Rebecca West
#21. Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
Witold Rybczynski
#22. But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.
Jane Feather
#23. It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
Joe Baca
#24. At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.
John Mackey
#25. When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
Michael N. Castle
#26. When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We deeply desire our services to work for everyone. And that inherently means we have to work with partners. That is the thesis underlying everything we do.
Sundar Pichai
#27. A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.
Henry Ford
#28. We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.
Michel De Montaigne
#29. Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
#30. Mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination
S. Spencer Baker
#31. Our perceptions of 'managing' employees are founded on archaic outdated business fundamentals.
Shawn Casemore
#33. Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.
Dustin Moskovitz
#34. Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.
Shunryu Suzuki
#35. Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Henry Miller
#36. Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva.
Tariq Ramadan
#37. Communication ... it is a difficult optimisation. Structurally, it gets founded over words, organised around thoughts. Words are difficult to come through, successfully, amid the thought process. The thought process in right manifestation gives rise to communication.
Priyavrat Thareja
#38. So at last the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement and took over Greenpeace so that my friends who founded it left within a year because they'd captured it. Now the apotheosis is at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world.
Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley
#39. There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?
Arjuna Ardagh
#40. This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
William Kingdon Clifford
#41. I believe in singing for my supper. I'll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.
Russell Crowe
#42. Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine.
Daniel D. Palmer
#43. Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#44. Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.
Mary Webb
#45. My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
H. G. Bissinger
#46. Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#47. Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too.
Hugh Hefner
#48. Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.
Oswald Chambers
#49. hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort
F Scott Fitzgerald
#50. Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
A.G. Gaston
#51. I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
Peter Diamandis
#52. True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
Hugh Blair
#53. The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.
Alfred Rosenberg
#54. The possibility has occurred to me that the proper condition of man, which is to say that condition in which he is most admirable, may not be that prosperity, peace, and harmony which I labored to give to Rome." He has founded his empire, in other words, on a misconception. This
John Williams
#55. A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.
Eleftherios Venizelos
#56. If George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.
Jean Edward Smith
#57. The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
Baron De Montesquieu
#58. In no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
George Eliot
#59. Fiction is founded on truth ... unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
Agatha Christie
#60. It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
#61. Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
Ezra Stiles
#62. Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.
Michael Pollan
#63. The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.
Antoine Lavoisier
#64. The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#65. It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter Dunne
#66. The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
Alexander Hamilton
#67. In 1990, Paul Smith and I decided that conducting polymers as materials had developed to a level of maturity that commercial products were possible. With this as a goal, we founded UNLAX Corporation.
Alan J. Heeger
#68. Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
Preston Manning
#69. When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
Nancy Lublin
#70. Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
Eduard Shevardnadze
#71. In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
Sydney Brenner
#72. Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
Alan Moore
#73. I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.
Ross Perot
#74. All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.
Peter Forsyth
#75. America was founded by religious people, devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion. It's what made America different from every other country.
Rick Warren
#76. America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.
Kent Conrad
#77. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone
#78. Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel Alexander
#79. In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'
Bill Bryson
#80. They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we're making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population beyond the carrying capacity of the land.
Daniel Suarez
#81. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
James Madison
#82. I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.
Mariam Naficy
#83. Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
Kofi Annan
#84. The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#85. Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.
Pope Leo XIII
#86. America wasn't founded as a theocracy. America was founded by people trying to escape theocracies. Never in history have we had a Christian theocracy where it wasn't bloody and barbaric. That's why our Constitution wisely put in a separation of church and state.
Gregory A. Boyd
#87. A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.
T. S. Eliot
#88. It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.
Karl Marx
#89. I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#90. Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
Marquis De Lafayette
#91. I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion.
Dalai Lama
#92. In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
Pat Robertson
#93. Most men love to see their best friend in abasement; for generally it is on such abasement that friendship is founded.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#94. Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.
John Newton
#95. Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.
Seth Shostak
#96. Holding firmly to the principle that true religion is founded upon obedience. Unless
John Calvin
#97. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.
George Orwell
#98. What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.
Hans Vestberg
#99. It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
Albert Einstein
