Facto Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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