Quotes About Contest

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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Society and culture are therefore not true opponents of each other. Rather society is a species of culture that persists in contradicting itself, a freely organized attempt to conceal the freedom of the organizers and the organized, an attempt to forget that we have willfully forgotten our decision to enter this or that contest and to continue in it.

The world is elaborately marked by boundaries of contest, its people finely classified as to their eligibilities.

Whoever wins this struggle is privileged with the claim of true knowledge. Knowledge has been arrived at, it is the outcome of this engagement. Its winners have the uncontested power to make certain statements of fact. They are to be listened to. In those areas appropriate to the contests now concluded, winners possess a knowledge that no longer can be challenged.

World exists in the form of audience. A world is not all that is the case, but that which determines all that is the case. An audience consists of persons observing a contest without participating in it. No one determines who an audience will be. No exercise of power can make a world. A world must be its own spontaneous source. "A world worlds" (Heidegger). Who must be a world cannot be a world.

War is not an act of unchecked ruthlessness but a declared contest between bounded societies, or states. If a state has no enemies it has no boundaries.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

Two contestants would sit either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them.

Peter has the biggest mouth, so it goes to be a mouth contest.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Any game in the Championship is going to be difficult.

I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest.

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media rumor.

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.