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“In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.”

People Deals Policy Circumstances Perception Relation Historical International Foreign Policy International Relations

Author:Salman Khurshid

“The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence”

Past Perception Historical Individual Talent

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.”

Needs Humans Doe Reason Might Form Social Imagine Society Perception Property Historical Various Determined Pathology Social Being

Book:The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values.”

Ideas Values Hate Fighting Left Talking Perception Historical Islam Soldier Core Aggression Controversial Crusades Christendom American Values American Soldier

Author:Rick Santorum

“Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.”

Culture Individual Force Perception Capitalism Historical Contrary Ideology Operations Threatening Veils Hierarchy Framework Mobility Meritocracy Allocation

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the historical character of the perceiving organ. Both are not simply natural; they are shaped by human activity, and yet the individual perceives himself as receptive and passive in the act of perception.”

Way Humans Two Character Facts Individual Natural Objects Activity Perception Historical Senses Perceive Organs Passive Two Ways Receptive Human Activity

Book:Critical Theory: Selected Essays

Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays

“During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well”

Humans Wells Long Humanity Existence Periods Circumstances Perception Historical Determined Mediums Organized Accomplished Sense Perception

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?”

Order Perception Standards Crosses Victim Historical Authenticity Justify Considering Exploits Accuracy Historical Accuracy

Author:Michael Dorris