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«Dignity belongs to the conquered»
Author: Kenneth Burke
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Dignity
«We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.»
Author: Kenneth Burke
«It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly.»
Author: Kenneth Burke
«Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.»
Author: Kenneth Burke
«Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.»
Author: Kenneth Burke
«Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.»
Author: Kenneth Burke
«We hope to make clear the ways in which dialectical and metaphysical issues necessarily figure in the subject of motivation. Our speculations, as we interpret them, should show that the subject of motivation is a philosophic one, not ultimately to be solved in terms of empirical science.»
Author: Kenneth Burke
«For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.»
Author: Kenneth Burke
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