Structure Quotes - page 2

Thus the Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit. (John Ralston Saul)
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. View quote
Thomas Reid
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. View quote
Barbara Coloroso
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. View quote
Christopher Lasch
I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. View quote
Helen Reddy
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. View quote
A. R. Ammons
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. View quote
Asa Gray
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. (Godfrey Reggio)
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in. View quote
Henry Kravis
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration. View quote
Richard V. Allen
A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus. View quote
Charles Darwin
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected. View quote
John Adams
Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick. View quote
Francis Crick
Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. View quote
Francis Crick
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance. View quote
William James
On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole. View quote
Frank Zappa
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government. View quote
Kim Campbell
Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation. The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it. (Maria Montessori)
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system-and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. View quote
Ayn Rand
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise. View quote
James P. Cannon
The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience. View quote
William O. Douglas