“Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.” IfsFactsJobsPoliticalNextSoundIssuesBattleDemocratFinancialDullHorizonRegulationPlatformsItemsFinancial Regulation Author:Thomas Frank
“Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.” Has BeensStruggleIssuesRightsMinesBattleResponsibleDearCivil RightsCourageousRelentlessPioneersDear FriendMarriage Equality Author:David Mixner
“Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, "I'm New Here," doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.” PoliticalSongFightingBlackIssuesRecordsBattleNuclearComebackPolitical PowerNuclear PowerHerons Author:Will Hermes
“The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.” DifferentWarFormTurnsDecisionSituationMoralIssuesMilitaryBattleDegreesConstantFactorsWars And Battles Book:Why Don't We Learn from History? Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
“Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.” GivingWarSometimesMomentsCausesWaterIssuesCircumstancesBattleSuperiorityOverflowDrop Of Water Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.” MenMindWarBodyTruthHistoryPowerIssuesBattleConscienceDecidedCommandersOpposing Book:Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American Source: Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
“If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.” IfsMayIssuesWillingBattleUglyPunishmentHalfway Author:Lillian Hellman
“The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.” MenKindHas BeensStillsSeemsActionFormDifferencesAbilityRoomsAttitudeIssuesDoubtBattleConversationMen And WomenDecidedPerformancesDrawingDiscussionTopics Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
“I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.” ThinkingKnowsKindImportantCountryDoneFightingSpeakVoicePartyIssuesBattleImportant ThingsUsaThings Done Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.” IfsEnoughLostIssuesGoes OnBattleProveProjectsAimInfinityConceded Author:Nathaniel Branden
“Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding to threats and persecution with courage and resolve every step of the way. Anyone who cares about the climate issue must read his fascinating--and enraging--story.” WayHas BeensImportantStoriesCareStepsIssuesBattleThreatClimateWarriorFascinatingResolvePersecutionWho CaresRespondingEvery StepResilientOutspoken Author:Chris Mooney
“You start to worry about what happens if you don't win. You start to fear man because you want praise from man. You start thinking about how winning will lead to more money. There are a lot of sin issues inside of that. So now when I go into competition, I have to take my thoughts captive and use God's Word to fight that battle.” IfsThinkingMenWantGodUseHappensFightingWinningFearSinMoneyWorryIssuesBattlePraiseCompetitionMore MoneyMy ThoughtsRichnessCaptives Author:David Boudia
“We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.” StillsTodayPayIssuesRightsBattleEqualAbuseEtcGlobesOngoingParentalEqual PaySuffragettesParental Rights Author:Sarah Gavron
“Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile as sending George B. McClellan against Robert E. Lee, the Italians against Marshal Montgomery's desert rats or an Arab armored division against an Israeli rifle company. The copy desk can write the headline before the battle begins and take the rest of the night off.” WritingNightCompanyIssuesMilitaryBalanceRepublicanBattleDemocratMetaphorDesertCopiesDivisionDesksRatsIsraeliHeadlinesRiflesMontgomeryMcclellan Author:Wesley Pruden
“There is a connection between the issue of refugees and the battle against the so-called Islamic State.” StatesIssuesBattleConnectionsIslamicRefugeeIslamic State Author:Thomas de Maiziere
“Christians lost the battle in the public square over gay marriage because, frankly, we were outthought, outfought, and outmarketed on the issue.” ChristianLostIssuesGayBattleSquaresGay Marriage Author:Robert Jeffress
“On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.” EndsWholeCompanyIssuesBattleBenefitsPaidGenderDiscriminationReformPreventionInsurance CompaniesGender Discrimination Author:Barbara Mikulski
“Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.” TryingMindFirstsHumansLooksHeartLittlesStillsMatterProblemPastMovingFightingBitsConsciousnessIssuesCuttingMy HeartBattleLittle BitPicksNo Matter WhatHeightInternalsManifestDreadProtectedHuman ConsciousnessEmanateFractals Author:El-P
“"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.” IfsTermIssuesDesignTheoryBattleIntelligentSurfaceDebateMathematicalBiologyEntityContinuingMetaphysicalNaturalismThesisCreationismIntelligent DesignScientific TheoryEvolutionary Biology Author:Elliott Sober
“There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race, gender, and so forth - until you eliminate "withdrawal" and "attack" and replace them with "acceptance" and "help." Once you do that and not just talk about it, these other issues will fall into place quickly. They will not fall into place at all unless it is done this way.” WayDoneHelpingFallCultureFightingSocialGriefRaceIssuesAcceptanceBattleGenderCuresWithdrawalFall Into Place Author:Dallas Willard
“We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.” IfsMindIdeasBeliefLostImaginationChallengesDarkIssuesBuildingAdventureBattleIntellectualTasksMarkFoundationDeedsLiberalismIngenuityFree SocietyProspectsImplementationPhilosophicPower Of Ideas Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.” IfsThinkingShouldBelieveHumansProblemFormValuesSocialSidesGoalInterestConsciousnessIssuesBattleCriticismAbuseCriticalTyrannyMidstDominationHuman Freedom Author:Edward Said