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He who hath the gold maketh the rule.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemnedandstroveagainst inonecase, andsohighly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
There is nothing new inThird World governments seeking to justifyand perpetuate authoritarian rule by denouncing liberal democratic principles as alien.
For it isa true Rulethat Love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.
The order of nobility is of great use, too, not only in what it creates, but in what it prevents. It prevents the rule of wealththe religion of gold. This is the obvious and natural idol of the Anglo-Saxon From this our aristocracy preserves us.
The tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is 'Do anything you can get away with'.
'That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.' 'It's the oldest rule in the book,'said the King. 'Then it ought to be Number One,'said Alice.
The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterdaybut never jam to-day.
All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken:TELLTHE PEOPLE!
It is an axiom enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Je pouvais prendre pour re' gle ge ne rale, que les choses que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement sont toutes vraies. I could take it as a general rule that whatever we conceive very clearly and very distinctly is true.
Here's the rule for bargains: 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.
It is procedure that spells much of the difference between rule by law and rule by whim or caprice.
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
In friendship false, implacable in hate: Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
The first rule of intelligenttinkering istosavealltheparts.
It is a standing insult tosportsmen to have to play undera rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and to behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
His dominance is not that of one chosen as best fitted torulebut it issovereignty basedontheaccidentofsex.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
To be a successful father, there's oneabsoluterule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.
The central propositions [of Descartes]are these: There is a path that leads to the truth so surely that any one who will follow it must needs reach the goal And there is one guiding rule by which a man mayalways find this pathgive unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted.
Rule1: Be cautious, careful and when in doubt, keep your mouth shut. Rule 2: When tempted to say something, take a deep breath and refer to Rule1.
We take it as a fundamental psychological rule of any modern community that, when its real income is increased, it will not increase its consumption by an 466 equal absolute amount.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
To me the'female principle' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power Lehmann-Haupt structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.
A golden rule: we must judgemen, not by theiropinions, but by what their opinions make of them.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
Are we so sure that with15 representativesinacting under the unanimity rule, the deterrent would continue to deter? There may be one finger on the trigger, but there will be15 fingers on the safety catch.
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
Je voudrais bien savoir si la grande re' gle de toutes les re' gles n'est pas de plaire. I shouldn't be surprised if the greatest rule of all weren't to give pleasure.
Rule1, on page1of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow'[Rule 2] is: 'Donot gofighting withyour land armies in China.'
Il en est de la luxure comme de l'avarice: elle augmente sa soif par l'acquisition des tre sors. The same rule applies for lust, as for avarice: it increases its thirst by the acquisition of wealth.
You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.
In Words, as Fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike Fantastic, if too New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the Neware try'd, Nor the last to lay the Old aside.
Vous e" tes libre, choisissez, c'est-a' -dire, inventez. Aucune morale ge ne rale ne peut vous indiquer ce qu'il y a a' faire. You are free, therefore choosethat is to say, invent. No rule of general moralitycan show you what you ought to do.
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainouslicentiousabominableinfernalNot that I ever read themNoI make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
But we grow old, Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Through all the circle of the golden year.
Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratone Who can rule and dare not lie.
Why, as civilization spreads, do outstanding men become fewer? Why, when attainments are the lot of all, do great intellectual talents become rarer? Why, when there are no longer lower classes, are there no longer upper classes? Why, when knowledge of how to rule reaches the masses, is there a lackof great abilities in the direction of society? America clearly poses these questions.But who can answer them?
One Ring to rule them all,One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writeswith a misty profundity, heis talking nonsense.
The worship of God is not a rule of safetyit is an adventure of thespirit, a flight after theunattainable.The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
I have never been one to write by rule, not even by my own rules.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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