Dictates Quotes

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[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law… — Samuel West
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason… — Khalil Gibran
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason. — Thomas Jefferson
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been… — Margaret Sanger
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker. — Adolf Hitler
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human… — Ronald Reagan
He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were… — Ernest K. Gann
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived… — Harry Belafonte
Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it. — Paul Begala
Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe. — Grace Kelly
This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy. — Gabriella Wilde
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. — Simone de Beauvoir
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the… — Aaron Copland
It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that… — Clementine Ford
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :… — Thomas Carlyle
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies… — Jimmy Carter
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who… — Jean Baudrillard
"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf — Henry Beard

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