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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.
To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.
It's amazing how dumb people can impress you with how much stupider they can be when they really assert themselves.
Managers assert drive and control to get things done; leaders pause to discover new ways of being and achieving .
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.
Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.
They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'
But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
I pledged to put country before party and assert my independence when it reflects my principles or the needs of Central Virginia, and I have done that.
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.
Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was the Infinite,-not defining exactly whether he meant air or water or anything else.
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident
Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow their own power.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind.
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
I don't have to assert my virility. I think my career has shown that I'm not exactly a pantywaist. But I do take pride in my work, even to the point of being the first one on the set in the morning. I'm a professional.
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.
I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.
To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
