dictum

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Putting the experience of making “Faces of Death” in perspective, Goldhaber references Jean-Luc Godard’s famous dictum that every film is a documentary of its own making.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

The government held, and Hamilton got the economy running again using Bagehot’s dictum External link: “Lend freely, at a penalty rate, against good collateral.”

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

And judging by the crowds of tourists I encountered there last month, quite a few Americans have taken that dictum to heart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

Since then, Huxley’s dictum of “man remaining man” has become stretched.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

I have heard it said another way, as a dictum: ‘‘He who is less than just is less than man.”

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin