Sentences with 'dictates'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dictates and other words derived from it.
• « Acting according to the dictates of one's conscience, speaking the truth and trying to conduct oneself as a good citizen even under conditions that degrade the dignity of citizenship, may lead nowhere; perhaps it does. What will certainly lead nowhere is to calculate whether or not this attitude will lead anywhere. »
• « Adams argued: "Facts are obstinate things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact; if an assault was made to endanger their lives, the law is clear, they had a right to kill in their own defence". »