Top Maxim Quotes

  • All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. – Adam Smith

    All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.– Adam Smith

  • Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not. – Hilaire Belloc

    Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.– Hilaire Belloc

  • Maxim 27: Don’t be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler

    Maxim 27: Don’t be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries– Howard Tayler

  • Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through… through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler

    Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through… through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries– Howard Tayler

  • The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim – Larry Niven

    The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim– Larry Niven

  • …I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law. – Immanuel Kant

    …I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.– Immanuel Kant

  • I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. – George Washington

    I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.– George Washington

  • …[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer. – Immanuel Kant

    …[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.– Immanuel Kant

  • Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act. – Jerry A Fodor

    Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.– Jerry A Fodor

  • Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you’ll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler

    Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you’ll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries– Howard Tayler