Collected Works, Vol. 24, pp. 38–41.
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“Human ingenuity has not evolved a better method for corporate decisions than the majority principle.”
Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 3: Government By Consent And Consent, p 50
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Austro-Hungarian writer and academic 1900–1992Related quotes
" A Few Words on Secret Writing http://www.lfchosting.com/eapoe/works/essays/fwsw0741.htm" in Graham's Magazine (July 1841).
1960s, Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)
Context: Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts… Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
“The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.”
A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)
“Better to doubt methodically than to think capriciously.”
Speech at his inauguration as Lord Rector of The University of Edinburgh (6 November 1925), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 83.
1925
Source: 1970s and later, Learning How to Mean--Explorations in the Development of Language, 1975, p. 16 cited in Constant Leung, Brian V. Street (2012) English a Changing Medium for Education. p. 5.
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”
Il vaut mieux avoir une méthode mauvaise plutôt que de n'en avoir aucune.
in Le Fil de l’épée.
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