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Quotes About Precondition

In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.
~ Gordon Brown
The precondition to freedom is security.
~ Rand Beers
Nothing can emerge at the end of the process which did not appear as a presupposition and precondition at the beginning.
~ Karl Marx
If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.
~ Dr. Phil McGraw
Lowered crime is a precondition to economic revival, not its consequence.
~ Heather Mac Donald
Security is the absolute precondition for sustainable recovery from conflict; without it, people cannot rebuild their country or return to school or work.
~ Richard N. Haass
Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.
~ George Osborne
The financial passport is part of full access to the E.U. market, and a precondition for that is the contribution to the E.U. budget. That has been the case in Norway and in Switzerland. That is clear.
~ Emmanuel Macron
Disentangling this mess of foreign national interests is a necessary precondition to ensuring that there will be a future for Syria that is Syrian-led and Syrian-owned.
~ Crispin Blunt
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
~ Ayn Rand
_Not really liking it much_ is a precondition of art criticism of all kinds.
~ Adam Gopnik
Compatibility is an achievement of love; it shouldn't be its precondition.
~ Alain de Botton
For, just as love embodies the life of all virtues and expresses the inmost substance of all holiness, humility is the precondition and basic presupposition for the genuineness, the beauty, and the truth of all virtue.
~ Dietrich von Hildebrand
Before McHenry returned to Philadelphia, Washington slipped him a sheet naming the three men he wished to see as his major generals, listed in order: Alexander Hamilton, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Henry Knox. Writing to Adams, Washington made the appointment of his general officers a precondition for accepting the commanding post.
~ Ron Chernow
Kant did not preach Nazism. But, on a fundamental level and for the first time, he flung at Western man its precondition: "Du bist nichts" ("You are nothing").
~ Leonard Peikoff
I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.
~ Kenneth Arrow
What happens when we accept that style, mediated through yet detached from a racial referent, may not be simply the excess or the opposite of ontology but may in fact be a precondition for embodiment, an insight that challenges the very foundation of the category of the human? What is at stake here is not just the objectification of people but also how that objectification opens up a constitutive estrangement within the articulation of proper personhood.
~ Anne Anlin Cheng
Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.
~ Heinrich Boll
Cease fire is the main and the most important precondition for launching an implementation of the Minsk agreement.
~ Petro Poroshenko
The precondition, then, of the creative personality is not only acceptance, but its actual glorification of itself.
~ Anais Nin
Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent.
~ Andrew Solomon
Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
St. Augustine once defined peace as "tranquility in order "The plan of life is what finally imposed a spiritual order on my ordinary days. And that order was the necessary precondition of peace.
~ Scott Hahn
The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *
~ John Berger