Norbert Elias Quotes

Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it is also a requirement to the minorities themselves. Because, I repeat myself, a ghetto existence is not very nice.

Norbert Elias

• State
• Ghetto
• Assimilation

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• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Job
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• One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

  

  Elie Wiesel
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• There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

  

  Phyllis Diller
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• You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Wall
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• Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

  

  John Hume
  • People
  • Control
  • Ghetto

• This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Country
  • History
  • Understanding

• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • State
  • Ground
  • Tennessee

• I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Mind
  • Leadership
  • State

• If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Power
  • War
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• The state of the world terrifies me. It feels more powerful personally to fight it through larger actions as opposed to trying to fight the Trump administration itself. It's sort of self-preservation for my mental health. If I spend too much of my energy and my brain on Trump, I'd lose my mind.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • World
  • Mind
  • Trying

• That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Slavery
  • State
  • Spare time

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Poor
  • State

• Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

  

  Aristotle
  • Experience
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Family
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  • Purpose

• [In Adelaide] I was born here on 24 May 1908, in the coldest part of the State, at the start of a particularly cold winter that registered ten heavy snowfalls between June and September.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Born
  • State
  • Adelaide

• A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • State

• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes

• We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

  

  Bill Harley
  • Stories
  • Structure
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• Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it is also a requirement to the minorities themselves. Because, I repeat myself, a ghetto existence is not very nice.

  

  Norbert Elias
  • State
  • Ghetto
  • Assimilation