25 quotes found
“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”
“The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.”
“The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacles estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that ...”
“In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for hum...”
“There is a strange intangible place on the outside edges of the human mind. It hangs there like a constant witness. It judges a person's every move, every thought and every action. Some people thin...”
“You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you...”
“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.”
“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans is as absurd & dangerous a fant...”
“Speak truth even if you be aloneFor truth hath no friend but itselfKhoiSan Book of Wisdom”
“How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.”
“Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person's heart. Learn to imitate Him who reproves gently. . . .When you become outraged over a person's fau...”
“ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof c...”
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. Its as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. N...”
“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself”
“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”
“The Fed's independence is critical.”
“Its not just all physicalIm the type who will get oh so critical”
“Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are pla...”
“Bourdieus concept of symbolic violence, which is violence that is exercised upon a social agent with his or her complicity...provides an explanation of how social inequalities can continue largely ...”
“Careful evaluation of information that is portrayed as fact is critical.”
