Time was the only variable in every equation of power and…

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

— Lucretia Mott

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

— Ken Wilber

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

— Oliver Tambo

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then…

— Talcott Parsons

The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two…

— Herbert Simon

Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model -…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more…

— Douglas Adams

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in…

— Meg Whitman

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And…

— Guy Steele

“You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them—two variables can refer to the same value.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…

— Karl Marx