The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion. — Jim Blinn Copy Share Image
I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion… — Will Self Copy Share Image
How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
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