“The state attorneys general have abandoned the slightest precepts that they're representing consumers, ... There are no consumer allegations in their complaint, and I doubt very seriously that there will be any in the Department of Justice's complaint because there is no damage to consumers. Consumers aren't asking for this lawsuit.”
Slade Gorton
“How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God actually wants them around?”
Steve Simon
“There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.”
Denis Diderot
“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”
Dudley Nichols
“My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.”
Hannah Arendt
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration”
Niccolo Machiavelli