#redefining

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard. ↗

— Jim Bunning

#being #decisions #extreme #heard #impose

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. ↗

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

#child #common #cut #described #done

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now. ↗

— Rita Dove

#american dream #different #different people #dream #i

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug. ↗

— Patty Murray

#bar #birth #birth control #control #fda

Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#building #building blocks #enacting #fundamental #huge

President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#amendment #benefit #bush #committed #cutting

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like. ↗

— David Graeber

#capitalism #redefining-consumption #dreams

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#away #basics #between #core #family

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem. ↗

— Tim Cook

#focus #problem #redefining #scaling #things

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#redefining #revolution #scientific #socialism #terms