Regulative Quotes

#1. Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.

Margaret Atwood

#2. I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.

Chris Meledandri

#3. War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with ... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation, and, as such, an dispensable factor in civilization.

Friedrich Von Bernhardi

#4. When will rappers & skanks realize God's not the only one who gets to judge them on their actions? We do too. It's called CONSEQUENCES.

Nils Parker

#5. Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

R. Kent Hughes

#6. If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.

Bhakti Charu Swami

#7. A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

Amy Adams

#8. Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present.

Julian Assange

#9. The regulative principle may therefore be seen, in a particular sense, as a natural inference from the doctrine of total depravity.

Joseph C. Morecraft III

#10. The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

Immanuel Kant

#11. The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Dennis Potter

#12. Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

Don Cupitt

#13. As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

Albert Einstein