“The world has surely become unhinged, and only violent movements can put it back together. But it may be that among the instruments for doing so, there is one — tiny, fragile — which requires to be wielded delicately.”
Bertolt Brecht, cited by Roland Barthes in Roland Barthes on Roland Barthes
Is law a greater force than culture?
Law: can be said to transcend activities within society — no matter what your specialization, you are still subject to the law. Culture: can be said to envelop or encompass activities within society.
Culture: varies according to class, career or area of endeavour, geography, ethnicity. Law: one law for everyone [...]
“Nothing is idiotic if you use your imagination. That’s what being a scientist is all about!”
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
Next Friday’s issue of Science, “a respected journal”, has been anticipated for a very long time now. It will continue to be anticipated, as long as next Friday looms before us — the near future, with the promise of novelty-almost-coming-in-to-being, is even more exciting than the new. The new, after all, is only new once. [...]
Nussbaum, 451: “When we see Nazis depicted without disgust, as human beings who share common characteristics with us — whether the emphasis is on the capacity of all human beings for evil or on a universal submissiveness to distorting ideologies — this is alarming, because it requires self-scrutiny, warning us that we might well have [...]
geddy lee, alex lifeson, neil peart