#relevance

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#being #definition #makes #man #matters

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#never #question #relevance #truth

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#around #because #buck #changing #could

I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#bbc #family #i #inflated #instrumental

The master demon Screwtape identifies elitist humanity's tendency toward "an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#elitism #relevance #men

Modern formulations are necessary even in defense of very ancient truths. Not because of any alleged anachronism in the old ideas – the Beatitudes remain the essential statements of the Western code – but because the idiom of life is always changing ↗

— William F. Buckley

#conservatism #persuasion #phrasing #relevance #change

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#changes #completely #development #except #factual

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#concept #culture #his #immediate #popular

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#life #philosophy #relevance #truth #experience

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#borders #boundaries #come #global #here