Tibayan Law Quotes & Sayings

What 'relations of production' in capitalist society represented for Karl Marx, 'relations of definition' represent for risk society. Both concern relations of domination (Beck 2002; Goldblatt 1996). Among the relations of definition are the rules, institutions and capabilities which specify how risks are to be identified in particular contexts (for example, within nation-states, but also in relations between them). They form at the legal, epistemological and cultural power matrix in which risk politics is organized (see chapters 9 and 10). Relations of definition power can accordingly be explored through four clusters of questions: — Ulrich Beck

Chose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming and acknowledged leader. — Richard Koch

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. — George Santayana

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting. — Malcolm Gladwell

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have pass'd. — William Shakespeare

The brain's dense thicket of interrelationships, like those of history or art, does not yield to the reductivist's bright blade. (91) — Thomas Lewis

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right). — Oprah Winfrey

Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home in space whatsoever. That is, light occupies no volume and has no mass. The similarity between a thought and a photon is very deep. Both are born in a region beyond space and time where nature controls all processes in that void which is full of creative intelligence. — Deepak Chopra

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master. — Laurence Overmire

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived. — Scott Turow

We are echolocators," Joel-and-Peter said. They were also, apparently, very sharp of hearing. — Ransom Riggs

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord. — J.C. Ryle

Tell you what: you can be Glammera the vampire hunter. I'll stick with being manly and heavily armed. — Rachel Caine

She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him. — Colson Whitehead

Our universe, extending immensely far beyond our present horizon, may itself be just one member of a possibly infinite ensemble. This 'multiverse' concept, though speculative, is a natural extension of current cosmological theories, which gain credence because they account for things that we do observe. The physical laws and geometry could be different in other universes, and this offers a new perspective on the seemingly special values that the six numbers take in ours. — Martin J. Rees