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

It is time to update Willie Sutton’s famous dictum on bank robbery: People rob the government because that’s where the money is.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 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

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

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025

After a page-long digression on pacifism, Christianity, and the Roman Empire, Keegan returns to what is wrong with Clausewitz’s dictum and with the modern understanding of war it captures.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker