If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation those of women by a parity of reasoning will not shrink from the same test.

The surrealists and the modern movement in painting as a whole seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

As information technology restructures the work situation it abstracts thought from action.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract.

To those who have exhausted politics nothing remains but abstract thought.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry in abstract poetry.