Quotes About Superstructure

Many fear that in disaster we become something other than we normally are—helpless or bestial and savage in the most common myths—or that is who we really are when the superstructure of society crumbles. We remain ourselves for the most part, but freed to act on, most often, not the worst but the best within. The ruts and routines of ordinary life hide more beauty than brutality.

I was especially delighted with the mathematics, on account of the certitude and evidence of their reasonings; but I had not as yet a precise knowledge of their true use; and thinking that they but contributed to the advancement of the mechanical arts, I was astonished that foundations, so strong and solid, should have had no loftier superstructure reared on them.

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of culture quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

As with buildings, it's easier to repair superstructure on top of a solid foundation than it is to replace the foundations without trashing the superstructure.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

To form a new government requires infinite care and unbounded attention, for if the foundation is badly laid, the superstructure must be bad.

Without the federal ratio, Hamilton glumly concluded, "no union could possibly have been formed." Indeed, the whole superstructure erected in Philadelphia rested on that unstable, undemocratic foundation.

And this is the main difference between the gospel and philosophy: for   though the philosophers speak excellently and with great judgment on   the subject of morals, yet whatever excellency shines forth in their   precepts, it is, as it were, a beautiful superstructure without a   foundation; for by omitting principles, they offer a mutilated   doctrine, like a body without a head.

A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

Sentimentality is the supestructure erected upon brutality.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

Thus the name of the game when it comes to evolution is not obtaining food or other resources: it is reproduction. Which came first, the chick or the egg? From an evolutionary perspective the egg did. A chicken is merely an egg's way of producing another egg. The chicken is just a transient reproductive superstructure that provides for the perpetuation of genes.

le religioni non sono altro che residuo dei vecchi tabu selvatici, sistemi di divieto con diverse sovrastrutture ideologiche." "... religions are nothing but remnant of the old wild taboos, prohibition systems with varying ideological superstructure.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

In the first week I found out how much of my old life was about hiding from life. Confronted with the problem of life served neat, without distraction or adornment or superstructure, I had almost no idea of what to do with it.

Above and behind him, on the carrier's island superstructure, a long banner read MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. It was there because the carrier was finishing a ten-month deployment, four months longer than the normal stint. The sign wasn't for Bush, but it fit the mood.

The boat—no, it was a ship, as one of the crew had explained, since it had a solid superstructure and was stabilized by ballast,

We were equally tired, in mid-century, of cold sanity and hot blasphemy; of the over-cerebral and of the over-faecal; the way out lay somewhere else. Words had lost their power, either for good or for evil; still hung, like a mist, over the reality of action, distorting, misleading, castrating; but at least since Hitler and Hiroshima they were seen to be a mist, a flimsy superstructure.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

The superstructure above me was triangular, angled back in a way to make it faster or something, I don't know, I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats.

the polite and polished superstructure of society must never be seen in relation to the substructure of money-grubbing and exploitation that allows it to exist.