In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into… — Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Copy Share Image
We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the… — Thomas Buckner Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed,… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
