“It is the understanding that sees and hears; it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.” OrderUnderstandingReign Author:Epicharmus of Kos
“The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.” MenWisdomWiseEventsBeing Wise Author:Epicharmus of Kos
“In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.” StillsProblemUnderstandingFamilyMembersOur Family Author:Raisa Gorbacheva
“Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.” PeopleSelfTodayGrowthAwarenessSelf AwarenessNationalismFabricExtremism Author:Raisa Gorbacheva
“The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.” WarWholeHumanityTragedyCalamity Author:Raisa Gorbacheva
“A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.” PersonsMemoriesArchivesSociologists Author:Raisa Gorbacheva
“The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in sexual harassment is not any of that. It is power, control, dominance. The tool is the same on both, but the agenda is completely different. That's what distinguishes the two.” TwoDifferentPassionActivityToolsAffectionLustAppropriateAgendasDominanceHarassmentLove Passion Author:Claudia Kennedy
“I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.” ThinkingWomenLinesOver It Author:Claudia Kennedy
“The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.” ProblemPoliticalIntellectualCapitalismTransformationUniversitySocialismCommunismThreatenedInterferenceFinancingIsmsIntellectual Freedom Author:Serge Lang