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
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
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
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge… — Robert P. Crease 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
There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable… — George Orwell 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
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content. — Ellen Key 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
The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to… — C. Wright Mills 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
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
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
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
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite… — Max Weber 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
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,… — Nicholas Negroponte 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
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At… — Philip Zimbardo 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
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those… — Adam Smith 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
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 socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit… — Cecily McMillan 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
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus 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
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed. — David Graeber 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
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