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“Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community by interior identification of herself with some other community - for example, another country or historical period... It is not clear that those who thus marginalize themselves can be criticized for social irresponsibility. One cannot be irresponsible toward a community of which one does not think of oneself as a member. Otherwise runaway slaves and tunnelers under the Berlin Wall would be irresponsible.”

“As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.”

World States Order Social Understanding Events Speech Relation Affair Oneself Access Mediums Reaching Manifest Speakers Privileged Subjective Social Order Interpersonal

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.”

Should Firsts Reality Order Social Oneself Renounce Supplements

Book:The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

Source: The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?

“To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.”

Ifs Wells Doe Enough Might Artist Social Practice Essence Oneself Deception Deceiving Lifelong Social Life Illusionists Deceiving Others

Book:The Mottled Lizard

Source: The Mottled Lizard

“Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with an image of woman as small, diminished, reduced, brought back to a childish body. The result is that a lot of extraordinary power is going to be diverted into making oneself smaller than one is meant to be.”

Made Body Moving Social Results Gains Weight Extraordinary Athlete Oneself Profession Accepted Meant To Be Being Accepted

Author:Kim Chernin

“I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.”

Want Social Views Struggle Alive Areas Oneself Range Abstract Fairytale Outcast Staying Alive Social Outcast

Author:Gunter Brus

“The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.”

Important Moments Social Ability Steps Events Rewards Oneself Social Control

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.”

World Way Believe Self Political Social Cases Struggle Military Islam Oneself Als Aggression Self Control Jihad Political Struggle

Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi