#trans

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. ↗

— Mencius

#another time #becomes #else #evil #exists

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#because #business #childhood #cradle #emotions

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#cheaper #corporate #devastate #feature #global

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#philosophy #transparency #whole

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#i #i think #level #look #next

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#based #bass #definitely #drum #especially

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis. ↗

— Elton John

#fabulous #gift #had #instrument #jerry

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#am #britain #brutally #determined #honest