Dictum Quotes

The message of Good Friday is that the dictum of an eye for an eye cannot work. The way to conquer evil is through good. Similarly, violence can be overcome only by non-violence and hatred by love. - Unknown

The least an over-romantic India can do ... is heed to the (former U.S. President Ronald) Reagan dictum: trust but verify. - Brahma Chellaney

The fact is that sports is not this big melting pot of upward mobility and opportunity and meritocracy. That's a false dictum. It never has been. - Earl Smith

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. - Lewis Mumford

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. - Francis Wright

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. - John Le Carre

If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts. - Alfred Korzybski

Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide. - Henry Waldorf Francis