Binding Quotes

159 quotes by 143 authors

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen… — Hjalmar Branting
No obligation to do the impossible is binding. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. — Thomas Aquinas
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a… — Nido R Qubein
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment. — Felix Frankfurter
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one. — Rajneesh
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. — Konrad Lorenz
It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of indefinite combination, and… — Charles Babbage
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,… — Gerhard Richter
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all. — Confucius
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response… — Rajneesh
Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding. — Dean Acheson
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one… — Arthur Eddington
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common… — Pope John Paul II
Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. — Pope Pius XI
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of… — Edmund Burke
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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