Premised Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid… — Akira Mori
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital… — Thurgood Marshall
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on… — George Monbiot
Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their… — Dalai Lama
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do. — John Newman
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and… — Kenneth O. Morgan
I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the… — Nayef Al-Rodhan
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally… — Scott Stossel
The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts… — Harry A. Blackmun
Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody… — Barack Obama
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of… — Naomi Wolf
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues. — Howard Rheingold
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be… — Michael Sandel
When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast… — Eliot Spitzer
For a man to hate the truth, as it may bring his misdeeds to light and punishment, is perfectly common and easy. But for a… — Ethan Allen

Who Wrote These Premised Quotes

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