Joyce Appleby famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
-- Joyce Appleby

#Creating #Trying #Should
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.
-- Joyce Appleby

#Passion #Past #History
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.
-- Joyce Appleby

#Details #Dozen #Coherence
Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
-- Joyce Appleby

#Remember #Forget #Sanity
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.
-- Joyce Appleby

#Wealth #Creation #Capitalist

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Good satire goes beyond the specific point itâ€™s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, youâ€™re not left believing everything theyâ€™re telling you.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

Joyce Appleby famous quotes

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