Primacy Quotes
37 quotes by 33 authors
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Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as…
— Thomas Berry
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A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and…
— David Foster
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by…
— Nadine Gordimer
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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art
— Sol LeWitt
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America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about…
— Joseph McCabe
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until…
— Russell Kirk
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If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one…
— Simon Winchester
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There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural…
— Paul Hawken
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Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in myself. How can…
— David Spangler
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The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
— Johan Huizinga
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One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our…
— Lewis Mumford
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a…
— Karl Lehmann
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Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service…
— Pope Francis
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Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are…
— Bell Hooks
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
— Dennis Lehane
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