Charles Grapski
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“Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.”
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
“On the Russian revolutionaries:
To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.”
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.”
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
“To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.”
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
― Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
“This segregation is confirmed by the common stereotypes of these two disciplines and their representatives. While scientists are perceived as absentminded, casually dressed individuals who live in a refined world of abstract theory with little practical reality, lawyers are usually perceived as formally dressed people who are practically oriented, concentrating mainly on trivialities (such as negotiating their retaining fee) and engaging professionally in all sorts of nitty-gritty social intercourse—the kind of things that normal people, although worried by them, would rather not have to deal with themselves.”
― The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
― The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
“This exceptional ability to interconnect observations and ideas from different disciplines lies at the very heart of Leonardo’s approach to learning and research.”
― The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
― The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
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