“Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation this methodological injunction against transitive concepts which might show the facts in their true light and call them by their true name the descriptive analysis of the facts blocks the apprehension of facts and becomes an element of the ideology that sustains the facts. Proclaiming the existing social reality as its own norm, this sociology fortifies in the individuals the "faithless faith" in the reality whose victims they are.” ThinkingFactsShowsRealityLightMightNamesIndividualSocialVirtueElementsConceptsVictimBlockIdeologyLimitationAnalysisNormSociologyApprehensionProclaimingFaithless Book:One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society Source: One dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society
“Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.” ShowsGivenTerribleVictimProfoundAccidentsTerroristIntenseTragicSolidarityProposeCondemnationTerrorist AttacksMadridRevulsion Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
“Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.” StatesShowsLawProcessCommonNumbersEffortRightsCitizensEqualIncreaseVictimDenyProtectionDuesHonestlyTendenciesInvasionSavageryLynchingDue ProcessEqual ProtectionDue Process Of Law Author:H. L. Mencken