Precedent Quotes

138 quotes by 116 authors

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and… — Charles Babbage
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on… — Joichi Ito
Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checkedâ€”not least by his own party, which set a continental… — Mark Gevisser
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President… — Charles A. Beard
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left… — Agnes Denes
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. — Agnes Denes
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a… — Sam Walter Foss
One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as… — Sam Walter Foss
Women will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. — Nikola Tesla
One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established… — Ralph Neas
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order â€” preferably a system of world government â€”… — Walter Cronkite
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. — Will Durant
I love Obama, and I love the fact that it's a black president of the United States of America, but he's not the first black… — Lupe Fiasco
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you… — Jaron Lanier
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience. — Bill Nighy
Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of… — Sandra Day O'Connor
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a… — Sandra Day O'Connor
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent… — Thomas Paine

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