Tendencies Quotes - Page 26

• [Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Crow, Hawaii, Segregation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower than in 1979, when the neoliberal assault was taking off. That perfectly naturally causes resentment and fear, and combines with a tendency to blame the most vulnerable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wages, Causes, Resentment

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• Trump has a lot of authoritarian tendencies that need to be a serious concern.

  Jonathan Chait

  Needs, Serious, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When we, for example, see shifts of huge production lines from certain areas to other countries, people tend to ask the question, "Where's my place in this modern world?" We have this here, this tendency in our country, we have it in other countries.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, People, Example

  "2016 Press Conference with President Barack Obama". awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. November 17, 2016.

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• What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

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• [william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where you are because there's nowhere to go anyway. I feel conflicted on this one.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Nowhere To Go, Where You Are, Burroughs

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Way, Culture, Helping

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, wvxu.org. December 16, 2016.

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• [People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together.

  Malcolm X

  People, Together, Movement

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are respected and privileged to be those who subordinate themselves to power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Strong, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Simple, Adequate

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the problems and dilemmas that constantly arise should be resolved.

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Mind, Problem

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted.

  Susan Sontag

  Fall, Hands, Law

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

  Susan Sontag

  Europe, America, Conservative

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Psychology, Depth

  Source: libcom.org

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• I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.

  Chelsea Manning

  School, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy is South African and therefore the engagement of the South African investor is also a critical part of this process.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Engagement, Investment, Economy

  Source: www.gov.za

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• At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest, greatest is the latest greatest. I think when you're talking about France, England, things like that, they look for the history of an artist and they go back when it comes to music like this anyway. They will go back a little bit further. I think the United States is very knowledgeable and it's a good place to play.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Home, Thinking, Artist

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and the overall power is achieved in bringing all impoverished people together. The common denominator is pain, because we all suffer through the deaths of loved ones and eventually suffer death.

  David Banner

  Pain, Impact, Issues

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• My feeling is that anarchists have to think in terms of a specific. I think the dispersal of anarchists all over the place, particularly very gifted ones who can turn out periodicals and do very effective public work, and their tendency to just pick up and take off is a liability.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Feelings, Anarchist

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Blow, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.

  William J. Duiker

  Decision, Enemy, Weakness

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, America, Dividing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Insecure, Way, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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