I take it from this little dictum, Know thyself.

I understand this timeless dictum as a statement about the problems, or more exactly the confusions, of consciousness.

You may have heard the military dictum for the gathering of armies March to the sound of the guns.

The 1967 war, however, represented an ominous watershed. Israel s lightning victory recalls Hegel s dictum about the impotence of the winners.

The 1967 war, however, represented an ominous watershed. Israel s lightning victory 160 recalls Hegel s dictum about the impotence of the winners.

But even the Machiavellian dictum that a ruler should encourage his citizens fear rather than their love can go only so far. The most successful political leaders are skilled coalition builders.

Additionally, we have incorporated in this Report, to the extent possible, valuable input from the National Commission for Human Rights, the dictum of which was asked for, according to statutory regulations.

Across the Asia Pacific region, China s rise is viewed as a welcome development, but one that requires China to play within internationally accepted rules. That dictum, of course, should apply to everyone.

Winston Churchill once famously said of America that you can count on it to do the right thing once it has exhausted all other alternatives. Let us hope that his dictum proves correct for Europe as well.

The weaker the civilian leadership has become, the more China has been inclined to discard Deng Xiaoping s dictum tao guang yang hui (hide brightness, nourish obscurity). China has lately taken more to the spotlight than to the shadows.

The number of street protesters has since swelled from five digits to six. His predicament illustrates the common dictum in the politics of developing countries where rural electorates elect governments but urban elites get to throw them out.

Keynes's dictum has become the ruling wisdom of monetary policy (one of his few to survive). Governments, according to the conventional wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to stimulate the animal spirits of businessmen and shoppers.

Imagine playing a video game controlled by your mind. Now imagine that game also teaches you about your own patterns of stress, relaxation and focus. At TEDxToronto Ariel Garten shows how looking at our own brain activity gives new meaning to the ancient dictum know thyself.

Understanding Clausewitz s dictum that war is a continuation of politics by other means, Sadat had sent the Egyptian Army across the Suez Canal in order to unleash a peace process. He was defeated militarily, but his decision to go to Jerusalem meant that he would succeed politically.

But this is not the Weltanschauung the worldview that permeates private sector discourse, especially the views expressed by most chambers of trade and industry and business associations around the world. Business organizations often hew to Ronald Reagan s dictum Government is not the solution to our problems government is the problem.

Buchanan s analysis stood in marked contrast not only to Adam Smith s dictum that the pursuit of self interest leads, as if by an invisible hand, to desirable social outcomes, but also to the prevailing approach to policy analysis, which views government as a benevolent planner, implementing textbook solutions to market failures.

The Appeals Chamber added that the statement in Tadić that customary international law permitted application of the notion of common purpose to all crimes within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, including genocide, appears to be logically and legally correct, regardless of whether it is considered to be obiter dictum.5

Indeed, the list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates is not lacking in men Roosevelt, George Marshall, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Henry Kissinger who either ended up recognizing the limits of military power or were simply following Clausewitz s dictum that war is the continuation of politics by other means.

First, apply the dictum of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) that it is better to let them do it than it is to try to do it better for them. Thus, let national negotiators, local leaders, and communities determine what their economic needs and priorities are, and let insurgents determine their preferred venue for reintegration.

Moreover, Abdullah understands that his wobbly regime will only be able to withstand the radical gales that are now blowing if it can forge the type of stability seeking alliance that Metternich built. The King, like Metternich and the Austrian Kaisers, understands de Tocqueville s dictum that the most dangerous moment for a regime is when it starts to reform.

But it is now clear not only that Putin is returning Russia to the stagnation of the late Soviet era, but also that he subscribes to former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev s dictum that what we have, we hold. So Putin s talk about reaching an agreement with Japan on the Northern Territories was likely as mendacious as his claims that Russians in Crimea were in peril, and thus in need of protection by Russian troops.

The question is this are Muslims ready to accept that Khomeini s dictum that Islam is politics or it is nothing is wrong, that Islam is a religion and not a form of government, and that, as in the Christian world, there is a sphere for Caesar and a sphere for God? Those in the Muslim world who want to embrace reform must be driven by the conviction that theocracy has never served as a vehicle for human progress.