Quotes from Douglas Robinson

Welcome to the world of translation—a compromised world of half-rights and half-wrongs.

Translation has been used, and should be used, to resist or redirect colonial or postcolonial power.

Translation has been used to oppress to ways in which it has been or can be used to fight oppression, to liberate minds and bodies.

Translatio studii et imperii is a battle, it operates through a movement of incorporation and rejection: everyone must become like us (converted or 'translated'); because of the necessity of translation you will be a second?class citizen in the empire.

Conversion, like conquest, can be a process of crossing over into the domain–territorial, emotional, religious, or cultural–of someone else and claiming it as one's own.

Translating' property is more than an ideology of conquest. It is a clash of cultures, ideologies that demonstrates the difficulty of translation.The colonists benefit from the encounter with the Indians but it is disturbing and daunting.

Translation theorized as a purely technical and linguistic matter, concerned with the transfer of meanings from one language to another, not associated with political issues of domination,submission, assimilation and resistance.

Translation in terms of power struggle: not a simple process for achieving equivalence but a conflict a question of 'bind or be bound', 'chain or be chained', 'capture or be taken captive

No one can experience everything first hand; in fact, no one can experience more than a few dozen things even through books and courses and other first-hand descriptions. We have to rely on other people's experiences in order to continue broadening our world - even if, once we have heard those other experiences, we want to go out and have our own, to test their descriptions in practice.

Weick urges leaders to continually discredit much of what the think they know - to doubt, argue, contradict, disbelieve, counter, challenge, question, vacillate, and even act hypocritically.

Memory (...) should be treated like a pest; while old solutions retained in memory provide stability and some degree of predictability in an uncertain world, that stability - often called tradition or the way things have always been - can also stifle flexibility. The world remains uncertain no matter what we do to protect ourselves from it; we must always be prepared to leap outside of retained solutions to new enactments.