Notion Quotes · Page 87

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

— Patricia J. Williams

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are…

— Aristotle

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously:…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with…

— Judith Butler

Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the…

— David Graeber

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone,…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a…

— Richard Rorty

I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change…

— Anne Frank

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

— William Eggleston

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers…

— Clayton Christensen

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.

— Bertrand Russell

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

— Lucy Grealy

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like…

— Norman Lear

Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

— Pope Francis

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller,…

— Jordan Peele

The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.

— Thomas Sowell

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination…

— Elliott Smith

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can…

— Feist

For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod…

— Oliver D. Crisp

[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion,…

— Ahad Ha'am

Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If…

— Anonymous

It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to…

— David C. Driskell

That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have…

— Jane Campion

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

— Soren Kierkegaard