Mode Quotes

472 quotes by 391 authors

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted… — Henry David Thoreau
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human… — Mary Robinson
The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does… — Kofi Annan
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production — Ludwig von Mises
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely… — Ludwig von Mises
The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression… — Henry Corbin
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;… — James Madison
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as… — James Madison
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they… — Mercy Otis Warren
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say… — Paul de Man
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that… — Oscar Wilde
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the… — James Madison
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of… — Samuel Johnson
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too… — Alexander Hamilton
I don't know exactly where the ideas come from, but when I get into a songwriting mode and it's coming along, it's like you're on… — Robert Earl Keen
First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That… — Lucinda Williams
The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently… — Gustav Landauer
When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved — Loretta Swit
Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my… — Ludacris

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