What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
... it would be impossible for women to stand in higher estimation than they do here. The deference that is paid to… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The next morning, I worked out at Murakami’s dojo in Asakusa. When I arrived, the men who were already training paused and… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One was kind, out of a bounty that could hardly be exhausted, to old governesses and gardeners, who could be relied upon… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There's great power in deference. You ask somebody 'what' or 'how' questions. People love to be asked how to do something. They… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I'm not the first to have raised these democratic concerns. Many have faulted the court for its lack of clarity in certain… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the… — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
Since the 1960s, when America finally became fully accountable for its past, deference toward all groups with any claim to past or… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
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