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Anthony Giddens has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of…
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The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
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Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see…
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Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,…
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The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of…
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…
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The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
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In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind…
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'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
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To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and…
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
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The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very…
— Antonio Gramsci
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Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.
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There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to…
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To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of…
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The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation,…
— Emil Fackenheim
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In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be…
— Leonid Shamkovich
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The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and…
— Anthony Giddens
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People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of…
— Paulo Freire
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The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human…
— David Novak
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