Quotes About Structures

As a result, Hobyo is as good an example as any of a "feral city." It's a term that is used in military circles to describe regions that have no effective government but sustain an internationally networked criminal economy. Feral cities are the ragged end of spaces of exception: they are not the product of governments or ideologies but show what happens when such structures fall away.

We need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes.

When you pay for something, it's not just buying something from the store. You are actually supporting the political and economic structures that provide you with that good.

The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

Sometimes, properties of a fixed hyperbolic surface can be better understood by studying the moduli space that parameterises all hyperbolic structures on a given topological surface.

Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look very different later on have fundamental similarities in the way they form.

The function of the state and of its structures in such a society are limited only to that which cannot be performed by anyone else. [Quoting Valclad Havel]

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.

We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries, And It's better to call for independence.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

There's evidence, too, that being good at maths is tied to a more general capacity to spot hidden structures in data. This could explain why it's common to find people who excel at both maths and music, and why training at chess can help improve maths scores – both music and chess have complex data structures at their heart.

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society—its world view, its basic values, its social and political structures, its key institutions—rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time. —Peter Drucker

Scholars tend to demand clear and irrefutable evidence for the existence of democratic institutions of any sort in the distant past. It's striking how they never demand comparably rigorous proof for top-down structures of authority. These latter are usually treated as a default mode of history: the kind of social structures you would simply expect to see in the absence of evidence for anything else.

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We need structures that don't squash flexibility and creativity but minimize inefficiency and confusion.

the consensus of modern sociology is at presuppositional variance with our Christian view of society. Sociology is one product of a world whose values and structures have been relativized. It is a product of the nineteenth-century rejection of a Christian world-view [sic]. It has assumed an authority of its own using 'society' as its only frame of reference.

the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.