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Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.
The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.
The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.
Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.
Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.
The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought.
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.
The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.
Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.