“I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.” NeedsWellsDoneFormPoliticalOrderGoalLeaderAchievePoliticianCorruptionCampaignsStatementsReleaseOppositionConcrete Author:Alexei Navalny
“Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.” MenIdeasReasonPoliticalGoalFateConsequenceIndependentStatementsContemporaryReasoningSocialistLife Fate Author:C. Wright Mills
“Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.” IfsWantHeartMeanPhilosophyFactsFormGoalExistenceExpressionMoralityHighestEthicsStatementsCognition Author:Novalis
“The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all animal products, is more than a matter of diet or lifestyle; it is a political and moral statement in which the individual accepts the principle of abolition in her own life. Veganism is the one truly abolitionist goal that we can all achieve - and we can achieve it immediately, starting with our next meal.” ImportantMatterFormPoliticalNextIndividualGoalDecisionAnimalAcceptingMoralPrinciplesAchieveProductsStartingLifestyleStatementsDietsMealsVeganVeganismAbolitionAbolitionistIncremental Change Author:Gary L. Francione
“The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYearsLooksHardRunningActionBeliefEasyGoalKnownStepsAchieveHabitComfortableOvercomingTrackWhat You WantStatementsFamiliarDragNew YearBetter LifeSetbackBelief SystemsAchieving Your GoalsNew Habits Author:Bob Proctor
“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal” IfsWarActionMovingGivenGoalCommonEffortEconomyShareMilitaryActivityResourcesProgramFlowTasksManagementComplexesProductionsStatementsFinanceDefinedQuantityTimingSchedulesInitialsUndertakingsExertionCoordination Author:George Dantzig
“The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.” StatesGoalStepsObjectsArgumentMathematicsPropertyDefinitionsVariousProofStatementsMathematicalReasoningIntroducingJustifiedConvincingPresentingTheoremsSmall Steps Author:IU?. I. Manin
“Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.” MeanHas BeensMadeHumanityGoalRolesTechnologyClearProgressAchieveMercyInstrumentsProfessionStatementsAbandonedTechnologicalMultiplyingTechnological Progress Author:Stanislaw Lem