#theory

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. ↗

#political-theory #politics #political-philosophy

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. It does not allow that the sacrifices imposed on a few are outweighed by the larger sum of advantages enjoyed by many. Therefore in a just society the liberties of equal citizenship are taken as settled; the rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests. ↗

— John Rawls

#individuals #justice #liberalism #philosophy #social-institutions

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#ontology #philosophy #politics #resistance-theory #political-philosophy

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#also #because #i #movies #never

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#clue #confident #doing #even #look

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#audience #better #confuse #five #gamble

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. ↗

— David Antin

#fundamental questions #i #pursuit #questions #sure

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. ↗

— Russell Baker

#being #journalism #product #profits #street

My theory is that comedy comes from little people. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#comes #little #little people #people #theory

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ↗