Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. John Chrysostom
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences. Albrecht Dürer
A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Henry David Thoreau
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. John Ruskin
No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work. Barack Obama
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. Bill Maher