Jure Quotes

#1. A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand.

David Wolfe

#2. The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

Shirley Chisholm

#4. In 1989 the former drug czar and TV talk-show fool, William Bennett, suggested de jure as well as de facto abolition of habeas corpus in "drug" cases as well as (I am not inventing this) public beheadings of drug dealers.

Gore Vidal

#5. Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

Gilles Deleuze

#6. Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

Peter Kreeft

#7. I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Gene Tierney

#8. I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

Daley Thompson

#9. If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

Dr. Seuss

#10. I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

Paula Radcliffe

#11. In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.

Khalil Gibran

#12. Do with me, in me, and by me all that Thou wilt without resistance from me, in time and in eternity.

Jean Baptiste Saint-Jure