Constituent Quotes

47 Constituent quotes by 44 unique authors

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its… — Annie Besant
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and… — Giacomo Casanova
So I think there's going to be a constituent backlash against this thing soon, as they see it moving in that direction...Whether they can pass… — Steve King
In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist… — Joseph Story
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a… — Alexander Hamilton
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in… — James Madison
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. — Erich Fromm
Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it… — Manuel De Landa
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises… — Plato
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and… — L. Neil Smith
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any… — Joseph Lister
Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity, more central even than humility: the power to wait,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think… — Roger Brooke Taney
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living… — James Lovelock
Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while… — Eboo Patel
Hope is an essential constituent of human life. — Benjamin Franklin
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the… — Justus von Liebig
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. — Clay Shirky
People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of… — Bob Black
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and… — Thomas Nelson Page
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are… — Samuel Johnson
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now… — William Irwin Thompson
Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of… — Georg Ernst Stahl
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy
The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature;… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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