Axiom Quotes

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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. — Aneurin Bevan
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any… — Hunter S. Thompson
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit… — Harry S. Truman
Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing… — Thomas Browne
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… — Antoine Lavoisier
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far… — Augustus De Morgan
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that… — Henry Sidgwick
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence. — Edward Abbey
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.… — David Foster Wallace
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we… — Alonzo Church
An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are… — George Augustus Henry Sala
AXIOM. â€” Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's… — Robert Caro
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we… — Max Frisch
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. — Walter Alston

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