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Truth is powerful and it prevails. -- Sojourner Truth
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. -- Walter Bagehot
Honour sinks where commerce long prevails. -- Oliver Goldsmith
In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails. -- Jamais Cascio
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. -- Walter Savage Landor
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. -- Rick Yancey
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. -- Hesiod
Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country. -- Hun Sen
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. -- Denis Diderot
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. -- James Madison
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value. -- Christian Lous Lange
It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails. -- Benazir Bhutto
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. -- Thomas Sowell
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. -- Milan Kundera
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. -- Max Weber
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. -- Herman Gorter
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. -- Ann Druyan
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. -- Frederick Douglass
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community. -- Serge Lang
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. -- Plato
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. -- David Bohm
I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people. -- Alexander Mackenzie
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. -- Sugata Mitra
I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on. -- Dikembe Mutombo
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. -- F. Sionil Jose
The will of God prevails. -- Abraham Lincoln
Peace prevails when food suffices -- Momofuku Ando
Disharmony prevails when you confuse -- Rumi
Where there is life, hope prevails. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When levitation fails, a ladder prevails. -- Becky Stark
A smell of petroleum prevails throughout. -- Bertrand Russell
Where words prevail not, violence prevails. -- Thomas Kyd
What people believe prevails over the truth. -- Sophocles
Evil prevails when good people do nothing. -- Erin Gruwell
Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Evil prevails when good men fail to act. -- Edmund Burke
Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails. -- Catherine Cardinal
With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails! -- Gosho Aoyama
In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails. -- Robert Fritz
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails. -- Ramana Maharshi
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS. -- Winston Churchill
Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God. -- Michael Jackson
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails. -- Ludwig von Mises
There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment. -- Ludwig von Mises
Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. -- R.J. Craddock
Legal gun ownership always prevails over the emotionalism of the gun control movement. -- Greg Gutfeld
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. -- Oliver Goldsmith
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. -- Horace Mann
Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute. -- John Mearsheimer
Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated. -- Elbert Hubbard
No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails. -- Edward Bellamy
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. -- H. L. Mencken
Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance. -- Richard Bach
Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life. -- Orison Swett Marden
Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless! -- Rumi
I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. -- Mary Everest Boole
It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors. -- Vasily Smyslov
War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities. -- Bela Kiraly
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward. -- Vernon Howard
There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation. -- Guy Pearce
When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind. -- Mooji
A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war. -- Edward Gibbon
Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails. -- Wallace Stevens
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. -- John Bunyan
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. -- Abraham Lincoln
Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. -- Mary Everest Boole
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. -- Raymond Carver
The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other. -- Dan Mangan
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason. -- Swami Vivekananda
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally? -- Henry David Thoreau
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last. -- William James
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. -- Paul Krugman
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. -- Brian S. Wesbury
When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition. -- Brian S. Wesbury
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence. -- David Hume
It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails. -- Stanley Hoffmann
Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy. -- Manmohan Singh
I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity. -- Lucy Powell
Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. -- Dave Pelzer
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul. -- Samuel Chadwick
There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world. -- John Owen
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals. -- Ralph Nader
I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind. -- Bashar al-Assad
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. -- Will Durant
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails. -- Dalai Lama
Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia. -- Daniel Pipes
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong. -- A. C. Benson
They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. -- William Cowper
I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens. -- Marcy Kaptur
Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails. -- Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce. -- Adam Smith
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance. -- Eric Hoffer
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. -- Spiro T. Agnew
Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In a game like this, the team that makes the least amount of mistakes prevails. We made a couple today. But it's all about the brotherhood. We all go down together. -- Chuck Darby
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity. -- Jack Vance
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails. -- Francine Rivers
intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force. -- Samuel Chadwick
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. -- Benjamin Tucker
What brings me the most joy is stories about progressive thinking. When a mother or father accepts their child for whoever they are... when goodness prevails... blah blah blah. I'm a cheese ball. -- Jinkx Monsoon
In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis. -- Peter Senge
The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. -- Max Weber
The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism. -- C. Wright Mills

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