“I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.” PersonsHateIndividualKnowingI HateCommittedAssumption Author:Susan Sarandon
“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.” IndividualSocialImaginationAcceptingCreativityCreativeCapableCapacityPressureCaughtIntuitionAssumptionQuestioningPeer PressureSocial PressureFalse Assumptions Author:John W. Gardner
“Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.” WorldHumansPersonsIndividualHuman BeingsConceptsCreatorAssumptionBankingSpectatorsImplicitDichotomyPedagogyPedagogy Of The Oppressed Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.” PeopleNeedsIndividualAbilityAssumption Author:Evelyn Glennie
“The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.” IndividualGainsObservationMathematicalAssumptionUtility Author:Richard Arnold Epstein
“Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.” IndividualNationsBlackStageParticularCapableAssumptionMainstreamRepresentationGuerrillas Author:Aberjhani
“There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility...” FirstsMayUseIndividualResponsibilityStepsCasesBasesMalesAssumptionFirst StepsCondomCondom Use Author:Pope Benedict XVI