De Facto Quotes
33 quotes by 31 authors
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Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
— Pierre Bourdieu
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It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States…
— Tulsi Gabbard
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But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international…
— Ottmar Edenhofer
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What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements…
— Shirley Chisholm
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Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of…
— David Brock
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This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The…
— Harry S. Truman
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Americans love to mock the idea of monarchy, and yet we have our own de facto monarchy. I think what these leaks did is, they…
— Glenn Greenwald
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We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.
— Mark Lynas
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John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.
— Mark Shields
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because…
— William Blum
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It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to…
— Julian Robertson
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Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.
— Ottmar Edenhofer
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What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto…
— Paul Weyrich
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As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise…
— Amari Cooper
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The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to…
— Joe Bastianich
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Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving…
— Reince Priebus
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If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going…
— George Saunders
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