#course

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#god #language #writing #death

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. ↗

— Chris Patten

#above #accommodations #course #got #i

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#course #disney #i #into #just

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing. ↗

— Neil Postman

#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse? ↗

— Gary R. Ryan

#aa #art #art-work #creativity #punishment

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ↗

— Sophocles

#character #course #crime #failure #mistakes

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#course #determined #difference #group #history

Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it. ↗

— Micel Foucault "The Discourse on Language"

#education #foucault #knowledge #power #education

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#arose #art #became #course #marxism

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#justifies #minds #people #recourse #struggle