Agreed Upon Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

History is a set of lies agreed upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Like Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay and others, Mexico believes that we should evaluate internationally agreed upon policies and search for a more effective… — Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole… — Lawrence Kohlberg
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the… — Tom Daschle
We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. — M. L. Stedman
Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered,… — Robert K. Greenleaf
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no holy men, holidays… — Darrel Ray
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing… — Niles Eldredge
Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's… — Brian Greene
We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by… — Ismail Haniyeh
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected. — Garrett Hardin
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the… — Abraham Lincoln
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In… — Lysander Spooner
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their… — Dan Brown
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past… — Jeanette Winterson
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their… — Milan Kundera
What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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