Analysis Quote by Robert Jay Lifton

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

— William Blake

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

— Marshall Ganz

“The clichés in political denunciations in many low-technology, developing cultures—enemy of the people, capitalist war-mongers —that strike high literates as mindless are residual formulary…

— Walter J. Ong

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

— Tom Robbins

“Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.”

— Emil Cioran

“To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.”

— Angela Harris

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

— Robert Nozick

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

— Bernard Crick

We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense;…

— Anne Carson

“No,' Rambert said bitterly, 'you can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of... of…

— Albert Camus

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

— John C. Maxwell

“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of…

— S.I. Hayakawa