The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge… — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a… — Dave Snowden Copy Share Image
There's a tacit understanding among clubs that a good player shouldn't miss out on the big break of his career or a… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I make a deal with the audience every time I direct a movie. The deal always is this: I'm showing you this… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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