All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." Honoré de Balzac
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future. Alfred Jodl
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. Franz Schubert