John Carroll Quotations

We're just really close, ... Ever since freshman year, we've gotten closer and closer, especially through the battle back and forth. We motivate each other on the sidelines. Everything's good when we're working together.

We have seen a narrowing of the purpose of the newspaper in the eyes of its owner. Under the old local owners, a newspaper's capacity for making money was only part of its value. Today, it is everything.

The plant is set back 100 feet from Kentucky Street and is buffered on two sides by landscape buffers.

She came into this courtroom and asked for an apology, and none was forthcoming. He has taken no responsibility.

Give her a big hug and kiss, and tear up her passport. Don?t want her to go back, but that?s her choice.

For some, travel is beyond their comprehension. Some respond by saying something like, 'Weren't you afraid? Why would you ever want to go there? How could you get so much time off? Why don't you stay home for a while?' All these negative types of questions drive a person crazy.

He's a smart, aggressive, physical football player. He had a lot of responsibility and he handled it all.

Our backlog became too high as of the end of 2005 and we lost some market share as a result of that. Once we increase production capacity we should be able to recapture that market share.

Mary is a young woman of marriageable age when we meet her in the beginning portions of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. That means, in her culture, she would have been a young teenager, somewhere around 12 to 14 years old.

I worked for Knight Ridder for 18 years and I know the Detroit Free Press was part of the company's pride back in the old days. Now it seems, viewed from the outside, that these papers are like cards in a deck: you shuffle them, you deal them, you fold them, and the meaning of them as an institution in the community seems to have been lost.

That was an important play. Of course we missed him (when he was out). We scored a lot of points, but we're a different offense without him.

We've made slow progress all day because the winds have continued. Lines get repaired, but outage calls continue to come in.

We're working on trying to get some regular testing done on our own,

We won't make the problem worse, ... We may make it better.

The demand for coal led us to make a conscious decision to place coal cars at the very heart of our business.

When you apply direct financial incentives to ambitious and noted research and development projects, like what you see with what Maryland and the universities have going on, it's a compelling model for biotech. I don't know how effective Arizona has been in that respect.

The crews responded quickly as the winds crossed into the state, but the damage is very widespread with lots of broken poles and downed trees.

You have to burn the tape, ... You start over because there isn't much to learn from that game. So we're going to regroup tomorrow and go from there. There are two things you can do when you face a situation like this - give in or come back. We've got eight games left, and we're not that bad.

Both quarterbacks and all the receivers and offensive linemen did a great job of playing the passing game, which is what we had to do when we lost Mario,

We've had some outstanding players and he's right up there with the best of them. He's a leader by example, a leader by word and a leader by spirit. You just sense the enthusiasm, adrenaline and intensity coming off him. That's inspirational to others.

Everybody in the industry knows where the big biotech clusters are. We wanted to look at which regions were trying the hardest to provide real incentives for future growth.

Our defense played great, just like we expected. Offensively we did just what I expected as well. We made a ton of mistakes, but we did what we had to.

After a couple minutes of travel talk, they get that blank look.

They had to go in and replace the pipe and the fix the gauge, ... So that took some time.

There're environmental laws. This should have been stopped long ago, another six months of this is intolerable.

A big part of the relationship is because of his lifestyle and his relevance to teenagers right now. It's not just the way he plays on the basketball court.

It will be a much more robust system and structure.

It's a hot issue nationally. We allow military recruiters on campus, so the ruling does not affect us.

It'll just hurt 'til the next shows come around next year. I'll just have to work a little bit harder on some of the old prospects that I haven't heard from in a while and everything, but, yeah, it'll hurt definitely,

It?s been very tough on her father, my brother, Jim. I talked to him daily or every other day. You could hear, over time, it?s wearing on him. So it?s a great relief for him.

It was a hit and run - boom,

I've got to wait 32 hours to get back to Birmingham.

The restoration is very labor intensive because the remaining outages are widely scattered. A crew may work for several hours on a repair that brings only one or two customers back on line. We appreciate everyone's patience and attention to safety.

Their quarterback is, is man, what an impressive runner, ... We just couldn't tackle him. I have all the respect in the world (for them). He is incredible. Their offense did a great job tonight. We did not play well defensively because of their toughness.

By next year we should have all the main rail car types covered.

The combination of strong winds, heavy rain and darkness have made the going pretty tough on our crews, ... But they will continue to work into, and if necessary, through the night to try to get service back up.

The consistency of our performance, and assignment performance, was greatly improved over last week.

Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.

What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.

Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own.

Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.

Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.

Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding, ...

If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.

Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities, of men like Goethe ... who seem to forge their own destinies, who seem to move unhampered by those burdens of existence which keep most men from rising above the vicissitudes of their daily toil.

The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.

Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.

The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check.

The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.

Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's fullness than subsequent reflection on their significance. Both Stirner and Nietzsche have elaborated Faust's opening speech in which he bemoans his wasted years in academia: this speech is Goethe's own impeachment of Kant and Hegel . Philosophy proceeds always under the risk of making a fetish of thinking.

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.

Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.