the specifics QUOTES

1 " While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. "

― Andrew Solomon , The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

3 " Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this reason that Marx registers...a vigorous indictment of the anarchist Proudhon... Proudhon in effect took the specifics of bourgeois legal and economic relations and treated them as universal and foundational for the development of an alternative, socially just economic system. From Marx's standpoint, this is no alternative at all since it merely re-inscribes bourgeois conceptions of value in a supposedly new form of society. This problem is still with us, not only because of the contemporary anarchist revival of interest in Proudhon's ideas but also because of the rise of a more broad-based liberal human rights politics as a supposed antidote to the social and political ills of contemporary capitalism. Marx's critique of Proudhon is directly applicable to this contemporary politics. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is a foundational document for a bourgeois, market-based individualism and as such cannot provide a basis for a thoroughgoing critique of liberal or neoliberal capitalism. Whether it is politically useful to insist that the capitalist political order live up to its own foundational principles is one thing, but to imagine that this politics can lead to a radical displacement of a capitalist mode of production is, in Marx's view, a serious error. "

― David Harvey , A Companion to Marx's Capital

5 " Really, Sage? A date?" I sighed. " Yes, Adrian. A date." A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added. " I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that's not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring." " A real date." I figured I wouldn't give him the specifics on the Shakespheare play." What's the lucky guy's name?" " Brayden." There was a pause. " Brayden? That his real name?" " Why are you asking if everything's real? You think I'd make any of this up?" " No, no," Adrian assured me. " That what's so ynbelievable about it. Is he cute?" I glanced at the clock. It was time for me to meet my study group. " Gee, maybe I should just send you a picture to review?" " Yes, please. And a full background check and life history." " I have to go. Why do you care so much anyway?" I finally asked in exasperation.His answer took a long time, which was uncharacteristic. "

7 " One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. "