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A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as " state " and " society " and " government " have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self - responsible individuals . He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame … as blame, guilt , responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world … aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self- failure .
robert a. heinlein— In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as "state" and "society" and "government" have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame … as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world … aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.
robert a. heinlein— In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Our growing affluence has allowed us to shift from being bargain shoppers buying branded (or even unbranded) commodities to becoming mini-connoisseurs, flexing our taste with a thousand little indulgences that sets us apart from others.
chris anderson— Introduction to the 2006 edition, p. 11
If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.
terry eagleton— 1993 In the London Review of Books, 2 Dec.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
benjamin n. cardozo— Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923) as quoted in The American Journal of International Law Vol. 29 (1935), p. 32.
This reduction implies the release of funds for development and a shift of the labour force previously dedicated to military industries toward peaceful activities, protection of human rights, conservation of the environment, the eradication of illiteracy, promotion of education and scientific research together with enhanced efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals and implement the agenda for the post-2015 period.
alfred de zayas— CELAC / Zone of Peace: “A key step to countering the globalization of militarism” – UN Expert [73]
In the last decade most of the large industrialized economies have been shifting from a heavy manufacturing base to an information management base. Along with this shift has been stiff competition resulting from globalization.
— Joseph Migga Kizza (2010) Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age. p. 147
The best thing about religion is that it's so transparently absurd it can't possibly last forever. I'm convinced it will only take a small shift in human consciousness for it to be laughed off the planet, and I hope I'm still around when that happens.
pat condell— In Laughing religion off the planet - an interview with Pat Condell (27 February 2008).
I pray you, master Lieutenant, see me safe up, and my coming down let me shift for myself.
— 1535 On mounting the scaffold. Attributed in William Roper Life of Sir Thomas More (ed E V Hitchcock,1935).
They shift the movingToyshop of their heart.
Alexander Pope— 1714 The Rape of the Lock, canto1, l.100.
But from the first 'twas Peter's drift To be a kind of moral eunuch, He touched the hem of Nature's shift, Felt faintand never dared uplift The closest, all-concealing tunic.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1819 'Peter Bell theThird', pt.4, stanza11.
We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, Thou art noble and nude and antique.
algernon charles swinburne— 1866 Poems and Ballads,'Dolores', stanza 7.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
— The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History (1895), p. 165.
What is needed is a strong shift leftwards. This party in Parliament ought to start the process, and if it won't, the party conference will do it for them
michael foot— Tribune, 1979
I am not a nationalist, I am a Wolfe Tone Republican. In pursuit of that ideal I have been forced to continually shift positions, much like a man in a cinema who keeps changing his seat, but only so he can get a clean view of the same film. And the title of the film, of which I never tire, is The Future Irish Republic.
eoghan harris— Eoghan Harris. Contrary to opinion, I am politically consistent. Irish Independent.
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
václav havel— Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 17
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick— "Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
I would like to suggest that we should perhaps change direction in our efforts to bring about world peace. Up to now all the effort has been put into resolving speci?c con?icts: India–Pakistan, North–South Ireland, various African wars, Balkan wars, Russia–Chechnya, Israel–Arab, etc., etc. I’d like to suggest that we should shift emphasis and study war in general.
robert aumann— p. 1 (War and peace (2005))
The underlying ideological agenda of Gould has always been fairly clear. Even where there has been a shift in thinking, it might be argued that in general the discussions were reflecting a particular world-view that at the least was sympathetic to the greatest of twentieth-century pseudo-religions, Marxism.
simon conway morris— p.11 (The Crucible of Creation (1998))
When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, ‘Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position...’”
— As quoted in Speech to the First All-Russia Congress of Workers in Education and Socialist Culture, Collected Works, Vol. 29, p. 535)
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
— On ascending the platform to his execution, as quoted in History of England (1856-1870) by James Anthony Froude
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.
tom stoppard— Ch. I: Dramatis Personae and Other Coincidences
The great shift … is the movement away from the value-laden languages of … the “humanities,” and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the “sciences.” This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is … especially important in psychology … and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.
thomas szasz— p. 44 (Anti-Freud (1990))
If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.
william shakespeare— The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Induction, scene 1, line 124.
The great shift … is the movement away from the value-laden languages of … the “humanities,” and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the “sciences.” This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is … especially important in psychology … and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.
thomas szasz— Thomas Szasz, Anti-Freud, p. 44
Thus times do shift; each thing his turne does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve.
Concentrating on poses clears the mind, while focusing on the breath helps the body shift out of fight or flight mode.
— Melanie Haiken, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom”, p.134
