In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
Quotes about predominates (8 Quotes)
In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent or arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined if the latter, gross and sensual.
He in whom the love of truth predominates ... submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth ... and respects the highest law of his being.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Man is not made better by being degraded he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
I loved and hated India the pressures of class division and riches and poverty there are devastating, but love predominates. I have two families and scattered friends there, mainly in Delhi, but south also, and wish I had the stamina to tackle it again. Maybe I'll make it some day yet, but it does take stamina.