“For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ.” PeopleBelieveDifferentHappensSpiritualPoliticalAcceptingMoralPathDangerElementsWingsLifestyleAgendasInherentDisturbingRefusalRight WingCondemnationExplicitPolitical AgendasDifferent Lifestyles Author:Barbra Streisand
“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.” SelfUseActionPoliticalIndividualGivenSocialAcceptingElementsStructureTheatreRadicalHousingHierarchyConstraintsPropsLiableExpressiveSocial StructureRadical ChangePraxisQuixotic Author:John Carroll
“I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.” WorldBelieveRealHomeI BelieveChallengesAcceptingCreativeElementsPhotographyPhotographerReal LifeMediumsOur TimeRealism Author:Berenice Abbott
“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.” PeopleTruthPastWishAcceptingHistoryFantasyElementsGuidesSpheresNeverthelessRepresentationConfusing Author:Johan Huizinga
“Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.” KnowsLife IsCultureAcceptingMagicElementsMysteriousRealismMagic Realism Author:Isabel Allende
“Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.” FactsTodayKnownAcceptingLandCivilizationElementsUnderstoodTraditionThreatWestLondonHistorianRomeCrownsEgyptCradleSuppressionIdiom Author:Michael Tsarion
“The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.” LittlesSometimesFatherBeliefCommonAcceptingSuccessfulDivineElementsConstitutionAttachmentYearningSentimentalFoundingRefusalCommon GoodDivine Wisdom Author:Simon Critchley
“I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure.” PeopleIfsBookHappensAcceptingOpinionSeeingElementsPressureInvolvingUnder Pressure Author:Cillian Murphy
“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.” ImportantDifferencesAcceptingCivilizationElementsFormerCompareRejectsTravelerTourists Book:The Paul Bowles reader Source: The Paul Bowles reader