Concepts Quotes - Page 26

• Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires.

  Anjem Choudary

  Believe, Mean, Expression

  "People know the consequences: Opposing view". www.usatoday.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

  Leon Krier

  Towns, Planning, Architecture

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, Ideas, House

  "Feuds? I've had a few" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2004.

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• As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers

  Theodor Adorno

  Numbers, Keys, Circles

  Theodor Adorno (2003). “Negative Dialectics”, p.163, Routledge

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• To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.

  Todd Hido

  Photography, Fall, Emotional

  "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.

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• The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.

  Antonin Artaud

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Thinking, Opposites

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• I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

  Richard Lugar

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Law

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• Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

  Leslie Lamport

  Thinking, Language, Ability

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• In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

  Osman Baydemir

  War, Talking, Turkeys

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• One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

  Ray William Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Internet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and is based on. A fundamental determines the shape of what arises from it, much as a foundation of a house dictates its layout. A basic is how you introduce people you are teaching to the system. It is a beginning concept, often simplified to assist learning. If a fundamental is the foundation, a basic is the front door to enter the system.

  Marc MacYoung

  Teaching, Ideas, Doors

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• In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Opportunity, Ideas, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Rights, Justice

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• There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Football, Team, Reality

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• There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.

  Dennis Altman

  Practice, People, Majority

  Dennis Altman (1982). “The Homosexualization of America”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

  George Nethercutt

  Guarantees That, Rights, Justice

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• A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.

  Jose Padilha

  Running, Jobs, Law

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• RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?

  Jose Padilha

  Humanity, Criticism, Firsts

  "Exclusive: José Padilha Shares His Take on RoboCop" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 7, 2011.

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• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, People, Common

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• You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!

  Jerome Richardson

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Civilization, Violence

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Ideas, Two

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• Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for us," and depending on others to give us our self-image, make our decisions, and take care of us financially. When we are emotionally dependent, we look to others for our happiness, our concept of "self," and our emotional well-being. Such vulnerability necessitates a search for and dependence on outer support for a sense of our own worth.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Mean, Emotional

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