"[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed."

-- Jurgen Habermas

#Principles Quotes #Frozen Quotes #Action Quotes

“We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.”
“The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.”
“Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.”
“Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press
“All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“We live in condensations of our imagination”
“The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.”
“Every night she had fallen asleep dreaming about that kiss, and each kiss after.”

Source : Elizabeth Chandler (2012). “Kissed by an Angel: Kissed by an Angel; The Power of Love; Soulmates”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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