"Ideology knows the answer before the question has……" — George Packer
"Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away."
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24 Quotes by George Packer
George Packer has 24 quotes on this site.
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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
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Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and…
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With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making…
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Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and…
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line…
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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Twitter is crack for media addicts,
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At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish,…
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More Adapted Quotes
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one of 162 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
— Samuel Butler
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing…
— Roderick Murchison
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The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The…
— Elias Canetti
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought…
— John B. S. Haldane
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses!…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions…
— Unknown Author
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Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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