11 Primacy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. Charles Krauthammer

War History Struggle Conflict Values Other Constant Constitute Primacy Accounts Human Human History

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly. Lee Kuan Yew

Culture Values Group East East Asian Rapidly Total Individual Develop Primacy Support Over Effort Asian Interests Group Effort Necessary

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. Gore Vidal

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs. Frans de Waal

Strong Community Religions Individual Share Primacy Emphasize Also Another Opposed Apart Help Function Element Beliefs Binding Cohesive Set

Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community. Mitch Kapor

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. Sol LeWitt

Art Primacy Idea Emphasize Making Irony Wanted Not Interested Interested

The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China. Martin Jacques

Example Power Ambition Framing Way States Claiming East East Asia Must Find Seek Steadily Share Primacy Instead Global For Example Era Coming Continuing End Accordingly Dominant Acknowledging China Asia Interests Should United United States Right

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. Johan Huizinga

Abandonment Judgment Understanding Primacy Well Norms Ethical Means Standards Hence

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. Karl Lehmann

First Believe Thinking Other Despite Lately Has-Been Primacy Still Been Question Impressions Communion Full Agreement Fundamental Orthodoxy