“The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.” WorldVisionIdealsUltimateFundamentalsIslamNotionHeritageMainstreamMulticulturalismMuslim World Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.” FirstsIdeasFundamentalsNotionAbsurdAbsurdityRite Author:Albert Camus
“The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.” ShouldCollegeMassInstitutionsFundamentalsNotionUniversityVariousEntertainmentDeceitProvidingAbsurdityAthleticsSpectaclesUnreality Author:Charlie Pierce
“The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.” InterestMediaProduceProductsFundamentalsNotionAbsurdJournalismOwnersAdvertisers Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.” IdeasEarthChristianUniverseHeavenPerfectDivinePlanetsCitizensFundamentalsNotionForgottenPeculiarRejectedNastySuccessorsTainted Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos
“The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment.” ThinkingNatureDealsConditionsWeaponsFundamentalsNotionIsraelNuclearIranRegimesNuclear WeaponsRecognizingIranian Author:Barack Obama
“We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.” WorldWholeRealityFormUniverseParticularIndependentFundamentalsNotionVariousUsualQuantumArrangementsInseparableInterconnectedness Author:David Bohm
“For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.” WellsArtWholeChoicesReadingUnderstandingCivilizationTraditionFundamentalsWesternNotionFaithfulCitizenship Author:Os Guinness
“The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.” KindDifferentWholeMightPurposeMediaPressureInstitutionsFundamentalsNotionJournalismEducateDifferent KindsAltered Author:Tom Stoppard
“Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.” PersonsUseProcessFundamentalsNotionIllDuesConfessionFairnessClausesInvoluntaryMentally IllDue Process Author:William J. Brennan
“Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.” HumansPersonsAnimalMoralResourcesRegardFundamentalsPropertyNotionStatementsTreatedRejectsVeganismDefianceFrancione Author:Gary L. Francione
“A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.” SelfQualityCompassionKindnessAcceptanceFundamentalsNotionMatureSelf Acceptance Author:Jack Kornfield
“If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as ‘unlawful enemy combatants.’ If you make this exception, the whole Constitution crumbles.” IfsMenHumansMatterStatesWholeGovernmentAmericaLawIndividualHuman BeingsEnemyRightsPolicyDignityConstitutionFundamentalsNotionIncludingTerrorismCrueltyTortureExceptionInherentIndividual RightsUnlawfulPersonal Dignity Author:Alberto J. Mora
“The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.” BelieveMayWholeSpaceCasesAirFutureDifficultyPrejudiceFundamentalsNotionFlightAppealsShootingAccomplishedSpiteAviationPredictionsImpossibilityProceduresRocketsMisleadAnalogies Author:Richard van der Riet Woolley