Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
We can't unify around a single premise! Name one thing the Republican Party today could unify on. You can't. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise,… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents. — David Brin Copy Share Image
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has… — John Galt Copy Share Image
By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The modern era of feminism relies on a lot of accepted premises. The biggest one is that men are predators, that they're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women --… — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it?… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible.… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
![“[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/murray-bookchin-2587_accepting_ayn-rand-accepts-that-when-she-supports_2115369.jpg)
