Prescribe Quotes

• Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Laws
  • Establish
  • Commonwealth

• It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Rules
  • Futile
  • Prescribe

• The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Feel
  • Letter
  • Pulse

• Submission to what people call their "lot" is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shrieks of your relations, to their gibes or their entreaties; don't let your own microscopic set prescribe your goings-out and comings-in; don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbor in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize the opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Opportunity
  • Independent
  • Relations

• With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Prayer
  • Correct
  • Destructive

• Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Believe
  • Laws
  • Prescribe

• Systemicity is imposed as a set of rules binding the parts among themselves. But these rules do not constrain the parts to act in one way and one way only; they merely prescribe that certain types of functions are carried out in certain sequences. The parts have options; as long as a sufficient number of sufficiently qualified units carry out the prescribed tasks, the requirements of systemic determination are met.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Rules
  • Determination
  • Tasks

• If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.

  

  Eugene Grace
  • Success
  • Training
  • Habit