“No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.” SaidSinPracticeSubjectsCatholicMortalsReliefHomosexualityDamnationForthcomingCatholic FaithMortal Sin Author:James McGreevey
“We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.” PeopleIfsKnowsNaturalPracticeSubjectsPrisonGloriousGod KnowsHeterosexualityHeterosexuality Is Author:Gore Vidal
“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.” ShouldWritingLanguageSocialSpacePracticeSubjectsPositionJudgingMastersTheoryActivitySafeResearchDiscourseAnalysts Author:Roland Barthes
“The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.” WantNeedsReasonLightLawIndividualNationsResultsEffortPracticeEconomyEconomicSubjectsElementsBuiltFormerLatterNational Economy Author:Ralph Raico
“Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?” HumansReasonLightCommonPayPracticeSubjectsDivineLimitsWeaknessDeterminationRegardPhilosopherEndlessUncertaintyFacultySensibleSublimeTopicsBlindnessFrailHuman ReasonCommon Life Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.” PracticeSubjectsAnxietySimplicityEmploymentOccupationCasualUniformityAgitationPrecariousIncessantHopes And Fears Author:William Falconer
“The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.” StatesLawPracticeSubjectsTheoryCitizensElitesPoorest Author:Mo Ibrahim
“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.” IfsWorldArtistGamesPracticeSpecialSubjectsFiguresHorseCompetitionHungerProfitBlowInnocenceWinnerCrushSuspectsLoserAppetiteElusiveEphemeralDividingBarbaricRankingSkaterVindictiveWinner And LoserBartok Author:Russell Sherman