Quotes About Unexamined

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

The story of the earlier decades remains unknown and largely unexamined.

Like "the tyranny of structurelessness," the tyranny of tolerance has promoted an ethic of value freedom that has been allowed to stand as an unexamined principle among certain groups of women. From an unexamined principle, it is a short distance to an unexamined life.

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

could come to terms with aspects of my past without those terms being set by the Foundation's unexamined Freudian tradition, which pathologized women's experience when it didn't fit the great man's theory.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

again, again, unquestioned, not fully seen, not wanting to fully see.

History is full of other hidden foundations too long unexamined, old ways that people could not part with, practices about which they were proud and sure and defiant when they should have been ashamed.

History is full of other hidden foundations too long unexamined, old ways tat people could not part with, practices about which they were proud ad sure and defiant when they should have been ashamed.

Anger at queries about our beliefs is the body's warning signal: here lies unexamined and probably dangerous doctrinal baggage.

There are some overtly racist and sexist people out there—look around—but in general what we count and what we fail to count is often the result of an unexamined choice, of subtle biases and hidden assumptions that we haven't realized are leading us astray.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Many of our most deeply held convictions are hand-me-downs. They're old, unexamined, and unquestioned ideas that we innocently accepted from others.

In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question.