Abstraction Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time.

— Sendhil Mullainathan

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

— Jimmy Carter

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

— Brandon Sanderson

Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

— Christopher Hitchens

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

— Salman Rushdie

What keeps me level is the refusal to let the best of human aspirations die in the face of the challenges. I make a…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations…

— Terry Eagleton

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such…

— Anonymous

It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with…

— Peter Kreeft

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

— David Foster Wallace

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

— Johan Huizinga

For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.

— Paulo Coelho