“Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.” WarStatesHomeRealityKidsPoliticalPresidentDecisionUnitedUnited StatesEconomicPositionDrivenZoneAfghanistanPresident ObamaTroopsGrimWar ZonesReelection Author:Ron Fournier
“An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.” MindRealityValuesPositionHigherGainsVictimDeceiving Author:John Galt
“Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal.” RealityGuyPositionGeniusTruth IsUniversalBad GuysGood GuyAntiheroes Book:Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.” HumansLooksRealityRunningPositionObjectsSafeIllusionMachinesDistancePerceiveCinemaTiesAppropriateChairsTiedViewersAllegoryTies That Bind Author:Slavoj Žižek
“There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.” KnowsMenNeedsReasonWholeRealityChristianFormCoursesAcceptingTakenPositionAuthorityAreasAtheistDenyThinkerGreat Thinkers Author:Cornelius Van Til
“I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.” WorldRealityActorsPositionThis WorldIllusionRealisticLiberating Author:Anthony Hopkins
“Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.” ArtRealityArtistChoicesLiteratureSocialWealthDealsConditionsTalentPositionPagesOrdinaryPsychologicalRealismExceptionalImaginativeFreedom Of Choice Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers!” IfsThinkingLooksMomentsHelpingRealityPositionTragedyNewspapersFrightenedOrganizeHopelessnessHelplessnessYour Mom Author:Seth
“The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness it personally. They are entirely dependent on self-interested sources to supply their facts. Every part of the news-making process is defined by this relationship; everything is colored by this reality.” SelfFactsProblemRealityProcessSimpleIssuesPositionSourceNewsDefinedJournalismWitnessJournalistDependent Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I'm a person who acknowledges reality. I don't get up every morning and ask myself: What would I do differently if I were chancellor in a black-and-yellow (Christian Democrat and Free Democrat) coalition? The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the (Christian Democrat and Christian Social) Union stand to weaken their own positions if they don't make this coalition a success. And we both want success.” IfsWantPersonsRealityChristianAsksSocialBlackPartyMorningPositionUnionsDemocraticDemocratGet UpAcknowledgeYellowEvery MorningDemocratic PartyCoalitions Author:Angela Merkel
“The culture of irony is the culture of postmodernism, which I would furiously want to denounce. We have to act ethically and politically. Irony is a defensive position, against reality. It always knows what to think about reality. The idea of commitment and engagement is central to me, which is not ironic.” ThinkingKnowsWantIdeasRealityCulturePositionCommitmentIronyIronicEngagementPostmodernism Author:Simon Critchley
“I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.” RealityPositionConservativeBehalfConservatismAlways BelieveFree Society Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.” IfsWorldKindMeanWholeRealityBeliefViewsStepsTakenPositionOrdinaryEvidenceResponseAppearanceDespiteGrantedAlternativesAbstractContrastJustificationShedPretensionConceiving Author:Thomas Nagel
“The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.” MadeCountryRealityAmericaWealthGenerationsPositionChangedEqualIndependentOwnersLatinSpainLatin AmericaDescendantsAdministratorsBeing EqualPosition Of Power Author:Bocafloja
“I had a lot of ups and downs. I always said that if I were in a position to give back, I would and I have. As my name became bigger, I started giving. You want to make that connection with people who are less fortunate. It keeps you in touch with reality. When you become a successful individual, and have a thousand tasks going on, you forget that there are people in need. It keeps me grounded.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsGivingSaidRealityNamesIndividualForgetSuccessfulPositionThousandTasksConnectionsBiggerFortunateGroundedGiving BackUps & DownsLess FortunateSuccessful Individuals Author:Shawne Merriman
“At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.” IfsRealityWantedPoliticalHonestPositionTearsSmellGas Author:Thomas Metzinger