“No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.” MenMeanHas BeensUsedSpiritPurposeValuesIgnoranceRevolutionThousandSucceedBuiltRelationTransformationSlaveryComplexesInjusticeViolentTendenciesFactorsOppressionLiberationProtestDominantIdenticalBrutalityDestroyersInhumanityNegationComplex SystemsInhumanity To Man Author:Emma Goldman
“A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.” IdeasRelationComplexesEmpiresSmall Parts Author:Sangharakshita
“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.” IfsFeelsMeanPersonsHappensCertainSocialSuccessfulGainsRelationInstitutionsComplexesActiveComplexityRetirementReally MeanPondsInsistenceSocial InstitutionsWalden Pond Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.” WritingIdeasMatterStoriesGuyThreeStrongGrowsBornLinesNovelBearsRelationDiedComplexesUnconsciousChaptersSpidersTerrificSpunSpider Web Author:Katherine Paterson
“The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.” WholeSeriousRelationComplexesCampsFrivolous Author:Susan Sontag
“In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.” ShouldCountryStatesFoundInterestIssuesRelationComplexesCompromiseOther Countries Author:Vladimir Putin
“Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor it will guide your thinking.” ThinkingKnowsHumansDependsPicksRelationComplexesMetaphorGuides Author:Jonathan Haidt
“It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets us see that our lives have always been more complex than traditional categories allow. So, I think, you know, maybe the introduction of new words permits us to rethink what we've taken for granted about what forms bodies take, what the name is for certain kinds of sexual, intimate relations, how we think of a life.” ThinkingKnowsKindBodyRealityFormCertainNamesTakenOur LivesRelationComplexesTraditionalBrandsGrantedIntimateCategoriesPermitVocabularyIntroductionBrand NewTaken For GrantedNew Words Author:Judith Butler
“A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.” DoeSelfAmountRelationComplexesIslandsFabricMobile Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard
“We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveStillsUseTodayLawOrderNationsUnitedSecurityRelationComplexesChaosInternationalUnited NationsCouncilInternational RelationsLaw And OrderSecurity Council Author:Vladimir Putin
“Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.” WorldRelationComplexesIntenseAlternativesNothingnessAbstractionUglinessSeemingVariablesActualityTopography Author:Jerry Saltz
“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.” MindMadeTwoIdeasRealTogetherThreeSimpleViewsExistenceThirdsRelationComplexesSettingSettingsAbstractionCompoundsAccompanySeparatingCombiningUnitingSimple Ideas Author:John Locke
“Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.” WantFeelingsAbleNamesFeltOughtRelationComplexesOneselfManipulationConsistentlySuperiorityInadequacyFriendlinessBaffled Author:Susan Sontag
“All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.” ThinkingHumansHeartStillsLiteratureRelationComplexesScaryHuman Relations Author:Anton Chekhov
“The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can seldom or never make experiments for himself, he has to accept the data of daily experience, and discuss as best he can the relations of a whole group of changes; he cannot, like the physicist, narrow down the issue to the effect of one variation at a time. The problems of statistics are in this sense far more complex than the problems of physics.” WholeProblemScienceOpportunityCausesAcceptingIssuesGroupsEconomicEffectsOffersEconomicsDifficultyRelationComplexesPhysicsExperimentsConclusionDataStatisticsPeculiarInvestigationPhysicistVariationStatisticianDaily Experience Author:Udny Yule
“No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.” WaySometimesAttitudeSituationEnvironmentInfluenceAchieveDesignIntegrityRelationUnityComplexesRelateRelatedComplexityIsolationIsolatedBalancedWholenessConstellationsGood Design Author:George Nelson