We establish no religion in this country nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life devoid of breadth.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemies.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

The work of art just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness the rigidity the regularity the luster on every interior and exterior facet of the crystal.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

What I dream of is an art of balance of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing calming influence on the mind rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.