Prescriptive Versus Descriptive Quotes

#1. The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Michael Moore

#2. The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

Pamela Geller

#3. Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

Jonathan Sacks

#4. The first day of school, we walked till we reached a stretch of black graffiti on the sidewalk. Somebody named Ken blew dead bears, it said.

Mary Karr

#5. The missing links in my life's work, no less!

Robert Wyatt

#6. we may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. [L]anguage functions best when we mediate between the descriptive and prescriptive influences, changing the rules to better suit some things, but sticking to them for others.

John Wiswell

#9. Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

Sharon Gannon

#10. What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.

Alistair Begg

#11. Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married.

Timothy Egan

#12. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

Susanna Moodie