Establishing Quotes

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. (Marie Curie)
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. View quote
Charles Darwin
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. View quote
Maria Montessori
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them? View quote
Carl Menger
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. View quote
Elihu Root
The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. View quote
Mahmoud Abbas
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties. (David Lloyd George)
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable. View quote
Augustus
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China. View quote
Chiang Kai-shek
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'. View quote
John Ruskin
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions. View quote
George Washington
There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market. View quote
Benjamin Graham
So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact. View quote
Erving Goffman
German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades. View quote
Abul Ala Maududi
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. (Frances Wright)
We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States. View quote
J. William Fulbright
In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas will be sufficient only if all resistance is punished not by legal prosecution of the guilty but by the spreading of such terror by the occupying power as is appropriate to eradicate every inclination to resist among the population. The competent commanders must find the means of keeping order not by demanding more security forces but by applying suitable Draconian methods. View quote
Alfred Jodl
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. View quote
Carroll Quigley
But if the U. S. were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united and sovereign country, that would definitely be a second mistake. View quote
Vladimir Putin