#observation

Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts will be largely for naught, since people tire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations. ↗

— Brian Awehali

#politics #politics-observation #power #radicalism #change

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#observation #royalty #humor

It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it. ↗

— Mia Ryan

#observation #universal-truths #nature

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#communicate #concealed #critic #discover #dwell

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#intuition #invention #observation #perceiving #reasoning

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#enough #even #few #few men #fewer

Observation is an old man's memory. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#memory #observation #old

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. ↗

— David Dinkins

#exactly #i #make #observation #things

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#filter #i #life #look #might