A Quote by Kenny Smith

It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.

Kenny Smith

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Actuality Because Even Imagine Individuals Process Rebels Self Themselves Types Understood Victims Would Would-Be

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Kenny Smith
American - Athlete
Born: March 8, 1965

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

Jean-Baptiste Say

The moderns do not realize modernity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

John Crowe Ransom

In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.

Ravi Zacharias

Somehow it seems that all parents are certain that they themselves were victims of abuse in school and that they will not allow this to happen to their children. Even though children can also be the cruelest group imaginable - especially the cutest of them.

Sayed Kashua

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

David Weinberger

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.

Joseph Addison

When I talk about self-management, self-regulation, self-government, the word I emphasize is self, and my concern is with the reconstruction of the self. Marxists and even many, I think, overly enthusiastic anarchists have neglected that self.