Facto Quotes

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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who… — Douglas Adams
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
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when… — Theodore Beale
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
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
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
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to… — James Madison
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
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
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
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
We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability. — Mark Lynas
John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. — Mark Shields
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
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
Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the worldâ€™s wealth. — Ottmar Edenhofer
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
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
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
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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