Precondition Quotes

36 quotes by 33 authors

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building… — Kofi Annan
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a… — Dalai Lama
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us. — James H. Billington
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be isolated and collected… — Theodor Boveri
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold,… — Douglas Rushkoff
Keeping people on side is a precondition of making any progress on sustainability issues — Jonathon Porritt
We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles. — Murray Bookchin
I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up,… — Quentin Blake
Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom. — Christian Wiman
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases… — June Goodfield
Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow,… — Medard Boss
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. — Christopher Lasch
There is no rush. If we think intelligently about what we can achieve with our time, we can be relaxed, even lazy. In fact, being… — Richard Koch
Peace among religions is a precondition for world peace. — Agnivesh
For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is… — Dag Hammarskjold
Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is… — Rita Dove

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