Quotes About Contravene

#1. We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.

Theodore Dreiser

#2. Remember that the prime consideration of science is the protection and betterment of human life. I would never contravene that.

Alan Dean Foster

#3. And in declaring true every theory that does not contravene the evidence of the senses, Epicurus does not blink the fact that the philosopher may arrive at more than one explanation for a given phenomenon - in some cases, even at explanations that are mutually exclusive or contradictory.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#4. One seeks to contravene one's perceptions - why? So that one can wander utterly lost, without signposts or guide?

Philip K. Dick

#5. Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

Benjamin F. Wade

#6. In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles ... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.

James Brown

#7. No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

Desmond Tutu

#9. But here in the Lager there are no criminals nor madmen; no criminals because there is no moral law to contravene, no madmen because we are wholly devoid of free will, as our every action is, in time and place, the only conceivable one.

Primo Levi

#10. Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion ... There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.

David Mermin

#11. You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

Anthony Horowitz

#12. Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#14. If a book remained roadblocked long enough, it began to decay, to fall apart; all the little tricks and illusions started to show. He

Stephen King

#15. My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.

Raf Simons