Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:
“Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
“So the people will pay the penalty for their kings presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”
—John Dewey (18591952)
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