“Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.” WorldKindIndividualWishGoalVoiceResultsVisionViolenceModernDeterminationWestIslamViolentModern LifeEloquentMilitantJihadPhobiaHegemonyIslamistsBurqa Author:Daniel Pipes
“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.” LifeDoeReasonMomentsMightInterestResultsOughtIntellectualConscienceAdvantageAreasDeterminationPrejudiceStrict Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses
“The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.” SelfResultsCreationLimitsDeterminationInfiniteNotionExtremesCosmosSelf DeterminationMixturesExpanse Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.” MeanOrderIndividualResultsEconomyCapitalismDeterminationStriveEqualityInequalityFree MarketAuthoritarian Government Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy” DoeBeliefResultsDeterminationOutcomesApathyEfficacySelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura