“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.” ThinkingMenPersonsUseSpeakLanguageCausesTeachProduceMastersDependsAuthorityIncreaseNobleFollowersLoyalInclination Author:Thomas Szasz
“The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.” IfsCharacterPastSpeakInterestGreaterJudgingDependsAuthorityMouthsPassionateCommandReputationPreservesAssumptionTrendsResentmentCompositionDominantMajestyMomentumUtteranceOvershadowing Author:Learned Hand
“If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.” IfsThinkingShouldIndividualSpeakFreedomProgressMankindDependsSpeechMassObjectivesIndividualismFree Thought Author:Louis J. Halle
“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.” IfsThinkingMadeMatterReasonHelpingActionChoicesBeliefSpeakGoalDecisionViewsMoralPrinciplesDependsEthicsIdealsUltimatePracticalsFactorsSupposed To BeMeaninglessOur ActionsCriteriaDesirability Author:Max Horkheimer
“Then they began to say: 'Yes, but how can we know what is God's Word, and what is right or wrong? We must learn this from the Pope and the councils.' Very well then, let them conclude and say what they please, yet I will reply, you cannot put your confidence in that nor thus satisfy your conscience, for you must determine this matter yourself, for your very life depends upon it. Therefore God must speak to your heart: This is God's Word; otherwise you are undecided.” KnowsWellsHeartMatterSpeakDependsPleaseConscienceDeterminePopeCouncilUndecided Author:Martin Luther
“I have no problem living in Liverpool, but I think my wife and daughters deserve to enjoy every day to the full and live their lives - but they have to be at home all day. My wife doesn't speak a word of English, so she depends 100% on me. I live here with them. That's my world, that's my life.” ThinkingWorldProblemHomeSpeakEnjoyWifeDependsDaughterDeserveMy WifeNo ProblemLiverpoolWife And Daughter Author:Javier Mascherano
“Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.” SpeakVoiceDemocracyHeardDependsResonance Author:Carol Gilligan
“The most fundamental decision we all face over the course of our lives is what we will recognize as the ultimate reality, the uncaused source and cause of our existence. Everything else in our worldview depends on that initial decision. The Bible speaks of this foundational choice in terms of who or what we worship. We must all answer the challenge Joshua issued to the Israelites as they were poised to enter the Promised Land: "Choose this day whom you will serve" (Josh. 24:15).” RealityFacesLife IsChoicesCoursesSpeakCausesTermChallengesDecisionAnswersExistenceOur LivesLandSourceDependsWorshipUltimateFundamentalsThis DayInitialsWorldviewJoshPromised LandUltimate Reality Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
“In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.” IfsMayMeanBookSpeakSpaceRoomsDesignDependsStandingLibraryCeilingsYour FavoriteBookshelvesFavorite Book Author:Nate Berkus
“The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it. I used to be quite anti-social media, but I can see now that it can be a good tool for artists, a way for us to speak to each other outside of standard economies and across languages and borders.” WayI CanUseSeemsUsedArtistSpeakLanguageSocialEconomyMediaDependsInternetStandardsToolsSocial MediaUsed To BeBordersAnti Social Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom