Primacy Quotes

37 Primacy quotes by 33 unique authors

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
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
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
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art — Sol LeWitt
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
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
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. — Wislawa Szymborska
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. — Winston Churchill
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is… — Winston Churchill
The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince… — Pope Benedict XIV
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is… — Alain Badiou
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings… — Tom Hiddleston

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