By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on… — Edmund Snow Carpenter Copy Share Image
To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show.… — Jonathan M. Goldstein Copy Share Image
The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people...… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
