Quotes About Definition

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the married, supported life which is nuclear society itself.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

Except the pauper, that is to say, the man who cannot earn his living or pay his way, there is no possible definition of a poor man. Except

At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the main body of the church defined Christ as having two natures, divine and human.

the idea is that the infinite doesn't stand opposed to anything else—it is all-inclusive—while on the other hand, precisely what that is, is a way of contrasting the infinite with the finite. By definition, you can't contrast the infinite with the finite, although that's exactly what you want to do.

Sa réaction était excessive. En défendant ainsi son territoire avec Markus, elle trahissait son trouble. Ce trouble qu'elle était toujours incapable de définir. Le Larousse s'arrête là où le cœur commence.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

Over and over I have set forth the qualities that we Wendat believe ought to define humanity – wisdom, reason, equity, etc. – and demonstrated that the existence of separate material interests knocks all these on the head. A man motivated by interest cannot be a man of reason.

That's what anarchism is for me: a community of purpose without a community of definition.

His closing promise of survival for "government of the people, by the people, for the people" may have had its origin in Daniel Webster's 1830 speech calling the American government "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," but more probably he derived it from a sermon of Theodore Parker, to which Herndon had called his attention, defining democracy as "a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.

It's so much easier to define crime than it is to put your finger on justice.

Lebanonization') become an official part of the French language, defined in the latest editions of Larousse as 'a process of fragmentation of a state, as a result of confrontation between diverse communities', and 'tending to replace "balkanisation"'.

this question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal.

The harm is in whom this system makes powerful. If value is no longer vested in gold, but in the promise of gold, then the men who make the promises hold ultimate power. If money and gold are one and the same, then gold defines value, but if money and paper are the same, then value is based upon nothing at all.

The Ptolemaic map defines people according to their food. The Elephantophagi, the Struthiophagi, the Ichthyophagi, and Anthropophagi. If we followed the same sort of classification our definition would be the drink, thus:—the tribe of stout-guzzlers, the roaring potheen-fuddlers, the whisky-fishoid-drinkers, the vin-ordinaire bibbers, the lager-beer-swillers, and an outlying tribe of the

To dictate definition is to wield cultural power