Groups Quote by Tom G. Palmer Download Open image “Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.” — Tom G. Palmer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Groups Important Personification Political
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, sometimes our leaders, for their own political purposes, want us to think in terms of categories and groupings. Our group vs. this group… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
People get so focused on the politics behind this that they forget that every one of these is a person. — Luis CdeBaca Copy Share Image
It's all signals, but there's no substance. We're signaling that we want to help the minority community, but we're not actually helping them. So… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“A person's true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their very existence.… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your… — Jackson Guthy Copy Share Image
You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image