“Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.” WayInspirationalFeelsLife IsExpressionWallBuddhismGuiltyDominantHostilityOff The Wall Author:Frederick Lenz
“Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.” IfsCultureDemocracyPossibilityExpressionDeeperDominantPitsAmerican DemocracyDominant Culture Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.” PeopleWorldMindWellsPersonsStatesUseWantedOrderCoursesChristWalksPathHumilityExpressionKingsBalanceIndividualityImpressionDiscussionState Of MindDepressingDominantTurmoilElevatingTrue Humility Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum of internal stability, each is controlled by an Arafat-type figure - an anti-democratic strongman who is able to crush all challenges to his authority. Likewise, among those Arab countries that aren't ruled by a despot, the political dynamic is also consistent: In Lebanon, Iraq, and now Gaza, sectarian violence is the dominant form of political expression.” WorldCountryTodayAbleFormPoliticalChallengesViolenceFiguresExpressionTypeAuthorityDemocraticIraqCrushConsistentInternalsControlledStabilityDominantGovernanceGazaLebanonDespotsArab WorldArafat Author:Michael Totten
“If the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out, what happens is, we become depressed as individuals and societies - when we're depressed, we're much more vulnerable to be taken advantage of by demagogues and xenophobes.” IfsKnowsHappensPoliticalIndividualTakenSeeingExpressionRight NowAdvantageWork OutNostalgiaVulnerableDominantTaken AdvantageIndividuals And Society Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other.” StatesGovernmentFormPoliticalTermBehindsClassEconomicConditionsExpressionActivityInstrumentsExploitationDominantDominationDiscernmentSuppressionInsufficient Author:Michel Foucault
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” ResultsFocusOur LivesExpressionConcentrationDominantOur ThoughtsBad AssLife Is GoodChange Your ThoughtsHappy Thoughts Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others.” MenWorldShouldMindMaySometimesDreamFormTurnsPassionWishDangerousExpressionConsciousTerrorAbsurdInsaneDefinedPreservesFulfillmentInsanityIsolationUnconsciousNightmareSanityIsolatedDominantSubconsciousParliamentFanaticismExplicitTimiditySynthesisDangerous World Author:Bertrand Russell