There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
~By Golda Meir ~
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
~By A. J. Muste ~
When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.
~By John Sununu ~
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
~By George P. Baker ~
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
~By Jose Saramago ~
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
~By Walter Rudolf Hess ~
I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.
~By Dominique de Villepin ~
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
~By Leon Kass ~
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
~By David Korten ~
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
~By Michael Kinsley ~
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
~By James Hillman ~
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
~By Maria Montessori ~
He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?
~By Paul Darrow ~
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.
~By Mark Rothko ~
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
~By James W. Black ~
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
~By Jeff Miller ~
If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
~By Robert Morgan ~
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
~By James J. Gibson ~
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
~By Beatrice Potter Webb ~
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
~By Jean Piaget ~
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
~By Thom Mayne ~
I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
~By Anthony Holden ~
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
~By Lord Dunsany ~
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
~By Lee Child ~
All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
~By Charles Fort ~
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
~By George Wald ~
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
~By John Clayton ~
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
~By Alexis Korner ~
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
~By Niels Bohr ~
Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.
~By Sting ~
Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
~By Madeleine Albright ~
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
~By Randy Forbes ~
Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
~By Paul Hawken ~
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
~By Wilhelm Wundt ~
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
~By Earl Browder ~
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
~By Georg Simmel ~
The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
~By Aaron Klug ~
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
~By Joseph Needham ~
Every year, more than 300 million x-rays, CT scans, MRIs and other medical imaging exams are performed in the United States, and seven out of 10 people undergo some type of radiologic procedure.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
~By Richard King ~
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
~By John Grierson ~
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
~By David Borenstein ~
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
~By Will Durant ~
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
~By Steve Forbes ~
The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.
~By Leonard Orr ~
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
~By Albert Claude ~
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
~By Charles Lindbergh ~
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
~By Susan Sontag ~
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
~By Jean M. Auel ~
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
~By Albert Einstein ~
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
~By Larry Elder ~
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.
~By John Astin ~
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
~By Franz Boas ~
But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.
~By Dave Eggers ~
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
~By H. G. Wells ~
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