partial ordering quotes

- 10 of 65 Results
FILTER BY
Subject
Source
Author
More
The legislator must be in advance of his age.
Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though par ...
Woodrow Wilson
statesmanship | future, the | prophecy
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, ...
unknown author
God, justice of
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgme ...
unknown author
judgments | God, justice of
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have pr ...
unknown author
love
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly ...
Hannah Arendt
promises
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, writt ...
Charles Baudelaire
criticism and the arts
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meani ...
Daniel Bell
art | technology
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a life-and-death conflict between all those grand, universal, man-respecting principles which we call by the comprehensive t ...
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Civil War | democracy | class system
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres are realiti ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Aristotle | Plato
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wi' joy unfeigned brothers and sisters meet,
An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: ...
Robert Burns
families
ATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1 2 3 NEXT
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Partners: Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Reference Sendori
Copyright ©  2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
About PRIVACY POLICY Terms API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Suggest a Word Help