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“ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being.”

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge”

Theory Tools Productions Disposable

Book:Communication Power

Source: Communication Power

“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]”

Theory Productions Plenty Curse Referring

Author:Winston Churchill

“The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.”

Men Progress Theory Method Ancient Productions Bitter Employment Opposition

Author:Herbert Hoover

“American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.”

Hard Use Jobs Practice Products Theory Profit Productions Useless Profitable American Society

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.”

Writing Wells Novel Theory Involved Productions Fake Conspiracy Theoretical Canon

Author:Umberto Eco

“In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.”

Believe Courses Pleasure Principles Taken Events Theory Assuming Finals Productions Analysis Outcomes Tension Avoidance Hesitation Psycho

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.”

“It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.”

Mind Humans Christ Mistake Study Theory Productions Neglect Fearful Mislead Fallacy

Author:Ellen G. White