philosophy

"No result of the Civil War was more fundamental than the authoritative assertion of the inclusion of human beings of any color and any ethnicity in the proposition of human equality. A consensus in fa…"

"Brazil is a racist country and a racist society…But the funny thing is that nobody will admit to being a racist, and that's the problem. Blacks in Brazil are always in an inferior, subaltern position,…"

"nything can be made to look good or bad by being redescribed."

"It was at Kuttippuram, the head-quarters of the Kadattanad family, that this force surrounded 2,000 Nayars with their families in an old fort which they defended for several days. At last finding it u…"

"Even if vegetarian dishes are less palatable than meat-based dishes, and it is not clear that they are, we have to weigh up humans' loss of certain pleasures of the palate against what the animals we …"

"Superiority of existence and ideology cannot easily be broken. The youth are subjected to the same strategies and tactics, ideological and political propaganda, and oppressive systems as the woman - a…"

"Barack Obama being elected. I think about how… um… how my sons will grow up only knowing a black President. I can’t explain how that’s changed America. There’s an optimism now that wasn’t there for bl…"

"Washington circles view Chávez as the ringleader of these expressions of Latin American nationalism and unity... There is good reason why political actors and analysts of different ideological convict…"

"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it."

"Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave…"

"bservers regard the word nationalism as inappropriate for what they see as a natural, healthy yearning to make the peninsula whole again. But a distinction must be made between: a) feelings of ethnic …"

"An important reason for my visit is to reassure China that Malaysia welcomed its investments. What I am emphasizing is also that the postponement of a number of large-scale projects was due to the nee…"

"Believing that presidents have taxing and spending powers leaves Congress less politically accountable for our deepening economic quagmire. Of course, if you’re a congressman, not being held accountab…"

"The classical Greek philosophers, Aristotle and Plato, established some important systems ideas. Aristotle reasoned that the parts of the body only make sense in terms of the way they function to supp…"

"The Egyptian philosophers ventured on the perilous task of seeking out some analogy to the mode of operation employed by the Author of Nature in the first creation of organized beings, and they compar…"

"The whole of moral philosophy, as it is now widely taught, rests on a contrast between statements of fact and evaluations. … If a man is given good evidence for a factual conclusion he cannot just ref…"

"The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for c…"

"Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes …"

"Zionism's anti-Semitic project of destroying Jewish cultures and languages in the diaspora in the interest of an invented Hebrew that none of them spoke, and in the interest of evicting them from Euro…"

"The classical support for as-if models in the social sciences stems from the economist Milton Friedman , who, like the psychologist B. F. Skinner, saw little value in modeling cognitive processes. In …"