“Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.” Has BeensIdeasPhilosophyFacesLife IsCausesMillionsEffectsProduceExcitingNotionHarmAbsurdReputationPlentyNo IdeaAbstractDaily LifeSuggestionsRelativismPower Of IdeasDemoralizedWorking Alone Book:The Culture We Deserve Source: The Culture We Deserve
“The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.” MeanPoliticalOrderSocialTakenProduceFunctionNotionAnarchyAnarchismTransactionsSocial Order Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.” WellsKindMayStillsProducePromiseOppositesNotionCurrentsElsewhereDesirable Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.” InterestMediaProduceProductsFundamentalsNotionAbsurdJournalismOwnersAdvertisers Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.” PeopleIfsKnowsChristianJesusInfluenceProduceConsciousNotionCeaseChristian LifeCharacteristicsCommonplaceLovelinessImplicit Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.” MenHas BeensWholeSocialAnimalTechnologyShareMankindProduceDirectStructureFruitNotionForgottenProducers Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them.” PersonsOrderModernProduceHealthyLimitsConceptsConcernNotionProsperityScriptureRestraint Author:Max Anders
“I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.” WantIdeasSoulMomentsPleasureProduceNotionScreensAttachment Author:Elia Suleiman
“What is "credibility"? It's a very familiar notion. It's basically the notion that is central to the Mafia. So suppose say the Godfather produces some kind of edict and says you're going to have to pay protection money.” KindPayProduceNotionProtectionFamiliarCredibilityMafia Author:Noam Chomsky