Characterizes Quotes

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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course,… — J. Irwin Miller
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all… — Paul Hawken
Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured… — Marshall McLuhan
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling… — Erich Fromm
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes… — Carl Sagan
The unification of opposites which characterizes the commercial and political style is one of the many ways in which discourse and communication make themselves immune… — Herbert Marcuse
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm. — Saul Bellow
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the… — Ludwig von Mises
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not… — Paul Cezanne
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let… — Paul Robeson
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings. — Emile Durkheim
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good… — Norman Mailer
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today,… — Simone Weil
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes… — Niels Bohr
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all. — Jon Krakauer
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and… — Saul Bellow
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the… — Wallace Stegner

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