Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.
What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?
It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.
Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.
Giving everything for your passion and aims every day is enough. Quality and durability always shine through sooner or later.
It's an honor to support such a worthy program.TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
Genuine supporters of Palestinians' rights are fighting for equality, justice and freedom, aims that are in diametric opposition to any form of antisemitism.
Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
I already have a pet project called Project Shakti and it aims on educating women on menstruation cycle.
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one
The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
China believes that a global order without it at the top is a historical aberration. It aims to change that and reverse the spread of liberty around the world.
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.
We have to learn to be allies to each other. We are in a deficit of financial and social capital, and TransTech aims to help trans people reverse that.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play cricket. There can be a lot of negativity and misunderstanding of Islam.
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option.
Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.
On immigration, Trump needs an articulate policy that aims to secure the border and keep out illegals while letting in skilled legal workers.
It's an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
I had breathed in the atmosphere created by Henri Christophe, the monarch of incredible aims, much more surprising than all the kings invented by the surrealists.
Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity of what the international community has embarked upon.
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