Quotes by Example So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule. Edmund Spenser graciousdoctrineexample Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund Burke examplechildrenschool There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these. Eduardo Souto de Moura intelligentenergyexample A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear. Edward Abbey leaderexamplemean Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. Edward F. Hennessey issuesorganizationexample A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. Edgar Allan Poe foolexamplethinking No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon examplehurtmen The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the Palestinians are doing to fight the Israeli military occupation and terrorism of the sort that resulted in the World Trade Center bombing. Edward Said fightingmilitaryexample These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. Edward Sapir simplicitylimitsexample Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. Edmund Burke disciplineexamplejustice It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. Edward Said israeli-settlementsexampleyears This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic. Edwidge Danticat united-statesexamplecountry We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. Edwin Hubbel Chapin victoryedenexample To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence. Edwidge Danticat independenceexampleyears Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff. Edward Abbey butterflyexamplesports Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact. Eckhart Tolle limitsexamplestories The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense. Edward Snowden defensegovernmentexample If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual, and they've been harmed; their family's been harmed. But the state itself, you can't be extradited for harming it. Edward Snowden politicalexamplelaw Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time? Edward Snowden chinabecomingexample On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. Eleanor Holmes Norton equalityorganizationexample«1314151617181920212223»
