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The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.
Roland Barthes— "Myth on the Right," in Mythologies (1957)
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. Even when the problems it ignores build up to crises and erupt in strikes, riots, and demonstrations, it has not moved. Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
shirley chisholm— P. 104. (Unbought and Unbossed (1970))
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God's Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.
william lane craig— pp. 35-36 (Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (1994))
They must not fear, nor regard as sin, or take to heart any evil impulses to sin or to blasphemy, or doubts about the Sacrament, or any other such ugly temptations; for to experience these temptations defiles the soul no more than the bark of a dog or the bite of a flea. They trouble the soul but do not harm it provided a man puts them aside and ignores them. It does no good to struggle against them, or to try and master them by force, for the more a person struggles against them, the more persistent they become.
walter hilton— The Ladder of Perfection, Book I, ch. 38 (1494, pg. 43)
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.
william dean howells— In Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Editor's Study. Christmas Literature, December 1888, p. 158-59, as quoted in An Imperative Duty, Appendix D, 7.
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell— Poems (1964), Preface
Deconstructing the concept of race not only goes against the tendency of virtually every known culture to classify and build family histories according to some measure of common descent, it also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
j. philippe rushton— Mankind Quarterly, Winter98, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p231
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
henry van dyke— The Battle of Life
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.
douglas adams— As quoted in The Guardian (1995), and in "Biting back at Microsoft" (5 June 2001)
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
jorge luis borges— "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Hegel determines and presents only the most striking differences of various religions, philosophies, time and peoples, and in a progressive series of stages, but he ignores all that is common and identical in all of them. ... His system knows only subordination and succession; coordination and coexistence are unknown to it.
— Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 54
The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes.
henry s. haskins— p. 103 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
A generation which ignores history has no past; and no future.
robert a. heinlein— Paraphrased variant: A generation without history has no past — and no future.
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the large body of evidence about the actual complexity of the relationship between organisms and their resources.
richard lewontin— "It’s Even Less in Your Genes," The New York Review of Books, 26 May 2011Review of The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.
john lancaster spalding— p. 241 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!
tennessee williams— Amanda, Scene Five
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.
— An unpublished paper of 1907, as quoted in The Rising American Empire (1960) by Richard Warner Van Alstyne, p. 201; also quoted in On Power and Ideology (1987) by Noam Chomsky; accounts of this as being from a lecture of 15 April 1907 seem to be incorrect.
Economic theory in general ignores processes which take time to occur, and instead assumes that everything occurs in equilibrium.
— Chapter 8, Let's Do The Time Warp Again, p. 166
Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Elizabeth Blackwell— British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States (1821 - 1910)
Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that’s eroding the freedoms of most people.
Robert Reich— "Freedom, Power, and the Conservative Mind" (Wednesday, July 2, 2014)
The genocidal quality of the murderous campaigns against Greeks and Assyrians is obvious. Historians who realize that the Young Turks’ population and extermination policies have to be analysed together and understood as an entity are therefore often tempted to speak of a “Christian genocide.” This approach, however, is insofar inadequate as it ignores the Young Turks’ massive violence against non-Christians.
— Dominik J. Schaller and Jürgen Zimmerer, Late Ottoman genocides: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies - introduction, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:1, 7 - 14
Man 's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos to the unknown which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination . The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which magnifies the earth and ignores the background.
— H. P. Lovecraft, in "The Defence Remains Open!" (April 1921), published in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 53
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. Even when the problems it ignores build up to crises and erupt in strikes, riots, and demonstrations, it has not moved. Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
shirley chisholm— Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 104.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
robert a. heinlein— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)
Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
camille paglia— p. 65 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
— Barack Obama, Re-election Speech, Delievered at McCormick Place convention center in Chicago, Illinois on November 6, 2012
