Precedent Quotes - page 4

I ruled out any discussions on the subject [on the constitutional issue of raising any issue on the exchange of letters between Prime Minister and the President, in the Parliament], upholding the principle of confidentiality of communication between the President and the Prime Minister ...a significant constitutional precedent. (R. Venkataraman)
While we contemplate with pride the accomplishments of the past twelve months- accomplishments without precedent in naval history- we must never forget that there is a long, tough and laborious road ahead. View quote
Ernest King
It is dangerous to make a precedent, an innovation. View quote
John Pratt
The war between the two fan clubs stopped only about 15 years ago. We both told them to stop after there were stray incidents of violence on both sides. Considering fans have killed each other for our distinguished predecessors, MGR and Shivaji Ganesan, our fans can be considered pacifists (laughs). I went ahead and set a new precedent. I turned my fan club into a social service organisation. View quote
Rajinikanth
The dilemma posed by a choice between rules and men largely begs the question. There are, to be sure, times when rules, constraints, commitments, contract or treaty provisions stand in the way and should be transcended because of force majeure, acts of God, some deus ex machina that makes clear that all bets are off. ... If one relies on men of responsibility to make the right choice in crisis among conflicting rules, or to follow an altogether different course for which no precedent exists, there is a danger of creating new precedents and new rules, which may be applied mistakenly under different circumstances. ... The alternative to rules-men, which of course includes women-begs another question. Men have different responsibilities, principles, understandings, interests. View quote
Charles P. Kindleberger
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent. View quote
Floyd Abrams
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice. View quote
J Tillman
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet. View quote
Joichi Ito
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent. (Martin Filler)
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans. View quote
Max Baucus
Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer. View quote
Phil Robertson
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost. View quote
William Robertson Smith
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. View quote
Yochai Benkler
Humanity is moving ever deeper into a crisis which has no precedent. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. View quote
James Madison
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Informations without the accuser's name subscribed must not be admitted in evidence against anyone, as it is introducing a very dangerous precedent, and by no means agreeable to the spirit of the age. View quote
Pliny the Younger
A wedge strategy is where you focus on a highly charged issue at the borders of rationality and emotion. The emotional content of the issue can create a moral conviction that the issue needs to be resolved at any cost. Tactics that would otherwise be called into question can then be employed to resolve the issue. This sets precedent for the future use of those tactics in other arenas. (Ze Frank)
What is imagination? Psychologists tell us that it is the plastic or creative power of the soul; but materialists confound it with fancy. The radical difference between the two, was however, so thoroughly indicated by Wordsworth, in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, that it is no longer excusable to interchange the words. Imagination, Pythagoras maintained to be the remembrance of precedent spiritual, mental, and physical states, while fancy is the disorderly production of the material brain. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine. View quote
Junius
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are. View quote
Robert Venturi
A great European war under modern conditions would be a catastrophe for which previous wars afforded no precedent. In old days nations could collect only portions of their men and resources at a time and dribble them out by degrees. Under modern conditions whole nations could be mobilized at once and their whole life-blood and resources poured out in a torrent. View quote
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon