Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
What my research has shown me is that experts tend on the whole to form very rigid camps; that within these camps,… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood. — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation.… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
