"It is at the heart of our human……" — Jesse Ball

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to… - Jesse Ball

"It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have."

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13 Quotes by Jesse Ball

Jesse Ball has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world…
In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others,…
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If…
Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for…
One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition.…
I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and…
Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the…
…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation…
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at…
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside…
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the…

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

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