“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.” NeedsGovernmentLawNamesGivenPrinciplesGroupsTheoryAuthorityHarmonyInfiniteSakeSatisfactionProductionsVariousContraryVarietyObedienceAspirationAgreementCivilizedConsumptionSubmissionAnarchismTerritorialTheory Of Life Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in mathematical terms. Sometimes the logical structure of a conflict situation admits rational decisions; sometimes it does not.” DoeSometimesGamesTermDecisionSituationTheoryConflictStructureRationalVarietyMathematicalLogicalRational Decisions Author:Anatol Rapoport
“In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.” IndividualSubjectsTheoryPerfectionVarietyMidst Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations to a variety of physical theories. In contrast, the only elements in the construction of black holes are our basic concepts of space and time. They are, thus, almost by definition, the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe.” UniverseForceBlackSpacePerfectObjectsTheoryElementsConceptsDefinitionsHolesVarietyConstructionContrastTime And SpaceBlack HoleApproximation Author:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
“As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth” KnowsHumansIdeasMomentsSeemsSimpleTheoryExtremesValuableLibertarianWitVarietyLiterary Theory Book:H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism Source: H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism
“Various religions offer a variety of theories about life, death, and eternity. And yet, as different as all religions are, they share one common characteristic: they teach that the way to be reconciled to God is through works and rituals.” WayDifferentCommonTeachShareTheoryOffersEternityVariousVarietyCharacteristicsRitualLife Death Author:Robert Jeffress
“I've definitely seen things that have made me laugh. And there's some things that are really smart and like, "Oh man, we should have done that, that's really cool!" And there's some things that are like, "Oh, do they know something? I don't know!" So there's the whole variety of things that are in those theories. But they're cool.” KnowsMenShouldMadeDoneWholeLaughingTheorySmartShould HaveVarietyReally CoolReally Smart Author:Dan Trachtenberg
“There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.” ClearTheoryRevolutionDemandExpectationsVarietyRisingSatisfyingRegimesIncapableExplosionsIranian Author:Akbar Ganji