Assault Quote by David Cannadine

“First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention…

— José Medina

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“power relations that transformed figments of imagination into cruel – and very real – social structures.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods:…

— Evelyn Underhill

Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we…

— Robert Grudin

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

— Max Black

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its…

— C. Wright Mills

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for…

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

“We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life…

— Donna Goddard

“Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...”

— wallace stevens

“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state…

— Peter L. Berger

Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the…

— Jonathan Raban