Prevailing Quotes

154 quotes by 141 authors

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations… — Richard Henry Lee
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of individuals, the prevailing… — Herbert Marcuse
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past… — Calvin Coolidge
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point… — Saul Alinsky
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be… — Saul Alinsky
The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next. — Burton J. Hendrick
Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on… — Charles Grandison Finney
Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space… — Viktor Schauberger
The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he)… — Matthew Henry
Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion… — John Stuart Mill
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the… — George Soros
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. — David Brooks
Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not… — Che Guevara
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but… — Francis Galton
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. — W. Edwards Deming
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able… — Adam Parfrey
There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer. — Oswald J. Smith
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing. — Emma Bonino
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of… — Brian Ferneyhough
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture… — Gerald Massey

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