Nancy MacLean Quotes

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

Nancy MacLean

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• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Research
  • Point

• Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Consequences

• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Society
  • Health
  • Care

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
  • Ethnic

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Man

• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Important
  • Power
  • Day

• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • People
  • Society
  • Period

• 'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Power
  • Word

• Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • Society
  • Christian

• Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• I've had this TV for 7 years, this is how it works. Power on - it comes on. Simple clicker, volume control - piece of piss. Works every time.... what the fuck's this? What am I doing? JACK!!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Power
  • Control

• Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Men
  • Power
  • Political

• I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Free

• Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Satanic

• I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

  

  Ned Beauman
  • Good
  • Power

• I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

  

  Eli Roth
  • People
  • Society
  • Brave

• A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.

  

  Sophocles
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Expectation

• But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Wish
  • Mood

• Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

  

  Nancy MacLean
  • Power
  • Society
  • Privatization