“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.” IfsMenHumansHandsFormWinningLeftDifferencesBrainCuttingGroupsVictoryTasteCreaturesMembersEssentialsFingersDefeatVariousBonesDamageLeft HandMutilation Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.” SpiritOrderSocialNumbersGroupsEssentialsIndependenceRebellionGood HealthSocial OrderCapriceDeferenceEthnic GroupsDelinquents Author:Jean Dubuffet
“This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.” StatesReasonValuesIndividualChallengesDecisionGroupsModernEssentialsSmall GroupsBrake Author:Jacques Ellul
“If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.” IfsKnowsIdeasWarSoulSpiritualSpiritValuesRaceGroupsInvolvedEssentialsScientistChaosPhilosopherSupremeWarriorAliensHonourHeroicHeroismRepresentativesOffspring Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family in order to. To create, in other words, to put a group of people together who love to share together what they're doing, rather than be individuals as such.” PeoplePlayTogetherIndividualGroupsShareEssentialsTheatre Author:George Ogilvie
“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.” StarsGroupsEssentialsNotionProfessionArchitectureContradictionCollectivesModesty Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.” ShouldMayMeanTwoLawPoliticalGamesWinningCausesSidesViewsKnownPrinciplesGroupsParticularJudgingEssentialsConstitutionInstitutionsCourtConservativeDestroyedActivistTemptedTwo SidesStatutes Author:Robert Bork
“A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that had never surfaced in the abortion debate before this, that abortion was a woman's right. Most significantly, they argued that this right to abortion was essential to their right to equality -- the right to be treated as individuals rather than as potential mothers.” MotherIndividualGroupsEssentialsClaimsMotherhoodDebateTreatedAbortionTimetables Book:Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood Source: Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
“To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.” PeopleStatesValuesFightingGroupsEssentialsRacismWorthyElsewhereExtremismXenophobiaCompatibleFree State Author:Angela Merkel
“To be effective, leaders must have the qualities and attitudes essential to work in a group setting.” AttitudeQualityLeaderGroupsEssentialsSettingSettings Author:Meg Whitman