Dictates Quotes

209 Dictates quotes by 184 unique authors

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover,… — Eliot Spitzer
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice,… — Margaret Thatcher
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. — Oscar Wilde
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the… — Charles Dickens
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at… — Davy Crockett
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with… — Alexander Pope
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. — David Mazzucchelli
The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I… — Confucius
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even… — Joyce Carol Oates
O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom… — Benjamin Franklin
We all have choices. (Astrid) No we donâ€™t, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they… — Brigham Young
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may… — Charlotte Bronte
...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can,… — Brandon Sanderson
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in… — A. Lee Martinez

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