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
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
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
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
(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
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
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 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
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
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content. — Ellen Key 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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara 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 laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros 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
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
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
