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“As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.”

Children Self Might Causes Society Position Students Discipline Limits Authority Resistance Obedience Conformity Apathy Discourse Rebellious Authoritarianism Abnegation

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.”

Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights

“This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.”

Men Doe Said Action Law Causes Plans Effects Design Position Equal Conscious Universal Eternity Harmony Originals Karma Unconscious Adjustment Resumes

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.”

Ifs Thinking Political Left Causes Cases Position Definitions Be Good Merit Examining

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Wells Facts Happens Today America Faces Nations Causes Loses Moral Position Sick Aids America Today

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.”

People Ifs World Way Feels Hands Able Pain Causes Hurt Loss Position Survival Losing Hot Trade Financial Unfortunate Scenarios No Pain Stoves Without Pain Snowball Sensors

Author:William Eckhardt

“Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his loving-kindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child.”

“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.”

People Ifs Believe Humans Causes Human Beings Party Accepting Position Planets Majority Liberal Party

Author:Nick Minchin

“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

“The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into bed in a comfortable position, make sure the light is inadequate enough to cause slight eyestrain, choose a book that is either terribly difficult or terribly boring-in any event, one that you do not really care whether you read or not-and you will be asleep in a few minutes. Those who are experts in relaxing with a book do not have to wait for nightfall. A comfortable chair in the library will do any time”

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”

Thinking Humans Doe Humanity Causes Human Beings Position Embrace Anarchy Usual Apathy Stance

Author:Rod Serling

“Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.”

Men Believe War Ends Lasts Fighting Causes Justice Position Wall Retirement

Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

“If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Believe Causes Loses Careers Position

Author:Danger Mouse

“Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.”

People Thinking Mean Care Opportunity Causes Position Weak Reform Celebration Censorship

Author:Julian Assange

“When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.”

People Thinking Men World Said Enough Young Causes Enjoy Position Wind Cold Tough Standing Blow Weather Hats Exposed Sail Impatient

Author:E. B. White

“Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.”

People Needs Causes Church Leader Position Authority Tasks Primaries Preaching

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.”

Government Action Lying Causes Position Intention Motive

Book:American Power and the New Mandarins

Source: American Power and the New Mandarins

“I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.”

People Thinking Causes Accepting Moral Position Willing Civilization Okay Arguing Billions Collapse

Author:Margaret D. Klein

“I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Firsts Believe Enough Seems Causes Loses Careers Position Musician

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.”

States Bigs Suffering Energy Causes Process Simple Results Steps Awareness Position Letting Go Waste Simplicity Tiny Complexity Fuel Yield Unnatural Default Complication Cultivating

Author:Deepak Chopra

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