#section

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#big #big city #city #cross-section #like

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#god-given #god-given right #make #nothing #ourselves

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. ↗

— George Orwell

#different #even #his #intellectual #man

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice. ↗

— Alan Price

#organ #part #rather #rhythm #rhythm section

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#democratic #force #goal #great #greatest

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#best #best intentions #club #crowd #end

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. ↗

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone

#any #authority #ethical #exercise #functions

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. ↗

— Xun Zi

#big #big picture #clouded #everyone #fear

When we say that humans have a “right” not to be used for these purposes, this means simply that the interest of humans in not being used as non-consenting subjects in experiments will be protected even if the consequences of using them would be very beneficial for the rest of us. The question, then, is why do we think that it is morally acceptable to use nonhumans in experiments but not to use humans? Vivisection, Part Two: The Moral Justification of Vivisection | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach http://bit.ly/oREDH0 ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#moral-justification #utilitarianism #vivisection #experience

But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps -- would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women for the gratification of his curiosity. ↗

— Robert Ingersoll

#compassion #vivisection #experience