“An idea is always abhorred when taken out of its historical context”

— Ali Al-Wardi

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Iraqi sociologist 1913–1995

Girilal Jain (1924–1993) Indian journalist

Girilal Jain, "This is Hindu India", in : Elst, Koenraad: Ayodhya and after, Appendix I

“You know
Taken out of context I must
Seem so strange.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Firedoor
Song lyrics
Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses

“The complete meaning of a word is always contextual, and no study of meaning apart from context can be taken seriously.”

John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) English linguist

Source: "The Technique of Semantics." 1935, p. 37

“The writer has a fundamental responsibility to write well or to write the best he can, because if he doesn’t he’s not a writer. And when a writer writes, he’s always referring to a social and historical context…”

Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright

Source: On a writer’s responsibility in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”

Shelby Foote (1916–2005) Novelist, historian

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

“They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech … I did not say anything against the Islamic civilization”

Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician

His response to widespread condemnation of the above comments, in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm
2001
Context: They have tried to hang me on an isolated word, taken out of context from my whole speech … I did not say anything against the Islamic civilization... It's the work of some people in the Italian leftist press who wanted to tarnish my image and destroy my long-standing relations with Arabs and Muslims.

“Leadership is always dependent upon the context, but the context is established by the relationships.”

Margaret J. Wheatley (1941) American writer

Source: Leadership and the New Science (1992), p. 144

“All ideas are valid in the context they were created.”

Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher

Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001), p. 86

“What has set the mass in motion for any length of time is then called great. It is given the name of a historical power. When, for example, the vulgar mob has appropriated or adapted to its needs some religious idea, has defended it stubbornly and dragged it along for centuries, then the originator of that idea is called great. There is the testimony of thousands of years for it, we are told. But this is Nietzsche’s and Kierkegaard’s idea the noblest and highest does not affect the masses at all, either at the moment or later. Therefore the historical success of a religion, its toughness and persistence, witness against its founder’s greatness rather than for it.”

Georg Brandes (1842–1927) Danish literature critic and scholar

Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 20

“An idea is always abhorred when taken out of its historical context”

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