The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and…

What we've also got to think about is the limitations of military power. Maybe it's time to focus on the economic issues, and most…

— Paul Rieckhoff

“There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and…

— William Saroyan

“The military failure of the old empire was subsequently not mourned as an outward loss but celebrated as an inward gain.”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of man, and I cannot…

— William Saroyan

Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

“When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour…

— Scott E. Spradlin

Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Those who have been forced to study 'dialectical materialism', the strange concoction that was supposed to form the philosophical foundation of Marxism in the…

— Eugene V. Koonin

“An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for the individual…

— Søren Kierkegaard

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

— Karl Marx

“The word dialectic (in dialectical behavior therapy) means to balance and compare two things that appear very different or even contradictory. In dialectical behavior…

— Matthew McKay

Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.”

— Walter Benjamin

When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more…

— Plato

I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or…

— Marina Warner