Famous quotes containing the words basis, point and/or cut:
“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”
—Sir Edmund Leach (20th century)
“No one can doubt the purpose for which the Nation now seeks to use the Democratic Party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)