Constitute Quotes

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.