No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
