Dominant Quotes - Page 6

• There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Middle East, Conflict

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

  John Stuart Mill

  School Education, Education And Freedom, Government

  John Stuart Mill (1978). “On Liberty”, Penguin Books

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• Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

  Denise Duhamel

  Dream, Art, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Religious, Community, Remember

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities - because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Achievement, Community, Ladders

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

  Holly Near

  Perspective, Culture, Allowing

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• The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.

  Tom Peters

  Two, Design, Three

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.

  Brett Morgen

  Creating, Design, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.

  Geert Wilders

  Christian, Islamic, Looks

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Long, Islam

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I never would like to be a country that is that multicultural that, for instance, the Islamic values become more dominant. We should not do that. We should stop that.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Islamic, Should

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I'm not against other cultures, but I believe what the Germans call a "leitkultur", a dominant culture that we should have, even in our constitution state, what our dominant culture is and that our laws should apply to that culture and to no other one.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Should Have, Law

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• The culture isn't set up to embrace what we think and feel. Any doubt about that, just watch the ads on TV. They tell you where the dominant culture's values are - and they're not vegan!

  Tom Regan

  Thinking, Doubt, Watches

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rising, Elements, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Self, Challenges

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I don't want to romanticize the world in which everybody watched three networks and the Washington Post and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were incredibly dominant. That time has passed.

  David Remnick

  New York, Wall, Three

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our current model of capitalism and the dominant ideas in policy making have led to a failure of investment by both the public and the private sector in the things that drive productivity, and which affect its distribution.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Policy Making, Ideas, Investment

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Wine, Years, Kitchen

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• I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we try to take back the web or start something new because, you know, the dominant medium of our time is in a desperate state and it doesn't have to be like that.

  Tim Wu

  Trying, Calling, Revolution

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. October 17, 2016.

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• Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

  John McGahern

  Book, Space, Ideas

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Strong, Others Opinions, Giving

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• At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

  Josh Lucas

  Stronger, Males, Lions

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• The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Practice, California

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• Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Play, People, Trying

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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