Pronouncements Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We…
— Cesar Chavez
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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
— James Jeans
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
— Edward Abbey
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing…
— Sophocles
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
— Louise Bogan
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All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
— Tony Judt
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Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting…
— Mark Driscoll
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I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection…
— Robert H. Schuller
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The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an unacceptable strategic threat…
— John F. Kennedy
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Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
— Penelope Lively
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Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.
— Douglas J. Feith
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
— Christopher Lasch
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Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
— Rob Sheffield
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In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters…
— David Sedaris
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So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our…
— Rene Daumal
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