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Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged (Precedent Quotes)
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost (Precedent Quotes)
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory that they failed to conquer (Precedent Quotes)
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it (Precedent Quotes)
There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did (Precedent Quotes)
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect (Precedent Quotes)
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute (Precedent Quotes)
I’m inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye (Precedent Quotes)
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent (Precedent Quotes)
You shouldn’t reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you’re setting (Precedent Quotes)
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering (Precedent Quotes)
Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence (Precedent Quotes)
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster (Precedent Quotes)