“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
The Uncertain Midnight (1958)
Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter Eight
“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”
Edmund Cooper (1926–1982) British writer
The Uncertain Midnight (1958)
Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist
Source: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
James Comey (1960) American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)
Zisi (-481–-402 BC) Chinese philosopher
Opening lines, p. 104
Variant translations:
What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the Way is called culture.
As translated by Lin Yutang in The Importance of Living (1937), p. 143
What is God-given is called human nature.
To fulfill that nature is called the moral law (Tao).
The cultivation of the moral law is called culture.
As translated by Lin Yutang in From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 85
The Doctrine of the Mean
“Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
(1998), " On male domination http://mondediplo.com/1998/10/10bourdieu" Le Monde Diplomatique, Oct. 10, 1998
Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer
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The Way of Men (2012)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: No matter how honest and decent we are in our private lives, if we do not have the right kind of law and the right kind of administration of the law, we cannot go forward as a nation. That is imperative; but it must be an addition to, and not a substitute for, the qualities that make us good citizens. In the last analysis, the most important elements in any man’s career must be the sum of those qualities which, in the aggregate, we speak of as character. If he has not got it, then no law that the wit of man can devise, no administration of the law by the boldest and strongest executive, will avail to help him. We must have the right kind of character-character that makes a man, first of all, a good man in the home, a good father, and a good husband-that makes a man a good neighbor. You must have that, and, then, in addition, you must have the kind of law and the kind of administration of the law which will give to those qualities in the private citizen the best possible chance for development. The prime problem of our nation is to get the right type of good citizenship, and, to get it, we must have progress, and our public men must be genuinely progressive.
Paul Glover (1947) Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American politician
http://www.paulglover.org/8702.html (“Where Does Ithaca’s Food Come From?”), The Grapevine, cover story 1987-02-20