Quotes About Prevailing

what the effect would be of overturning prevailing assumptions and of adopting … a fundamental orientation towards the ground.

a tendency uncritically to accept the prevailing "order", and to view the evidence of financial corruption and political clientelism as inalterable,

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

The opposition Prevailingwind Party led by Alfredo Traficcone

The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.

At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby.

The way an institution works is that you go along with the prevailing fiction.

In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but by opinion.

People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself. But be rest assured that he who wishes to discredit you with malice and gossip will unknowingly create a shadow that follows him like the prevailing wind.

As long as free men are the prevailing majority in the earth there is a very good chance of breaking this cycle. To do so, however, free men must achieve an intelligent and dynamic solidarity at least as strong as the illusory but firmly fixed purposes of Homo-Marxian.

When those of dissimilar views interact, conformity pressures are argued to encourage those holding minority viewpoints to adopt the prevailing attitude. When those of like mind come together, the feared outcome is polarization: that is, people within homogeneous networks may be reinforced so that they hold the same viewpoints, only more strongly.

There are also many natural talents that are suppressed because their exercise would conflict with prevailing

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

The "Keynesian revolution" took place long before Keynes approved of it and fabricated a pseudo-scientific justification for it. What he really did was to write an apology for the prevailing policies of governments.

One of the great advances of our generation has been the exposure of child abuse. We have come to see that our prevailing rules for raising children shame and violate their uniqueness and their dignity. Such rules have been a part of our emotional endarkenment. Alice Miller has shown with painful clarity how our current parenting rules have aimed at making the child fit the projected image of the parent. They have also enforced the idealization of parents by the wounded child.

Remember, a fight isn't just about surviving, it's about prevailing. There's a difference.

The explanation given to any relation can survive and develop within a given society only if this explanation is stylized in conformity with the prevailing thought style.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.

Drug-taking among young people was caused by a catastrophic philosophy which had been provoked by the prevailing system. Consequently society should be duty bound to produce an effective counterargument. One that was not based on smugness and more police officers.

The spire above the empty belfry was bent; it leaned, like the leaning jackpines all around it, with the prevailing northwest wind.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.