#heo

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#concern #however #our #slavery #theory

I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938. ↗

— George Stigler

#price #publishing #started #theory #working

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming. ↗

— Uberto Crescenti

#against #am #causes #changes #climatic

...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be 'blind'. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but presupposes conscious and voluntary submission, for only conscious discipline can be truly iron discipline. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#discipline #leadership #management-theory #motivational #organization-wisdom

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#game-theory #interests #leadership #political-philosophy #leadership

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice. ↗

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

#gulf #high #life #practice #put

Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ↗

— Jim Parsons

#cooper #jim #parsons #sheldon #art

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. ↗

— Hakim Bey

#art #radical-theory #social-change #art

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment