Quotes, Points to ponder

Quotes, Points to ponder 

By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

Quotes 

·        Ideology is rational despite interest-relevant if it is discourse-relevant.

·        Every ‘great leader’ demands loyalty to himself rather than to a state as he believes that he is a state himself.

·        Editor has loyalty primarily to rational discourse.

·        Great leader has political base in the larger outside political world.

·        Reforms must be judged by new contexts and possibilities they produce.

·        Unity of theory and practice means subordination of followers to theory not vice versa.

  

 Points to ponder

·        Intellectual independence is not the allowance of challenging the intellectual underpinnings of an enterprise; it is the permission for seeking variation on themes. Intellectual independence is permitted to ensure the valuable critical reactions to experiences within consensual parameters.

·        Committed members of a party must have unqualified commitment to a party as his commitment is to the larger interest itself (mission of a party) and he must lend support (to a party) only contingently.

·        Analysis of the problems of any class either upper or lower is incomplete unless the analysis is of the class beyond to that class as a whole.

·        NGOs of west claims to bring to the fore common interest of the entire humanity independently of all nationality. They claim to represent always and everywhere the interest of the humanity as whole. Poverty alleviation is the common interest of all countries of third world; NGOs funded by IMF and the world Bank work toward alleviation of poverty, that is interestingly the direct outcome of the policies of these institutes.    

·        Creative development of theory as it is said is more likely to occur when the theorists are related primarily to a diffuse movement rather than to sharply boundaried loyalty-demanding organization. Theory is, however, the systematization of an idea for the particular group of people. 

·        All parties are different from each other; but all are similar in one aspect; each has an interest that is invariably distinct and special; and is not reducible to the interest of the strata that it claims to represent.

·        Intellectual work is the ideologization of organizational interest. Party activists seek to bring theory under control by their practical contribution that is in contrast to it; thus encouraging ‘favorable reforms’ by deprecating the authenticity of its political practice,

·         ‘One person can take a horse to water but many people cannot force a horse to drink it’ but more annoying is to see that the horse’s obstinacy is preventing many others from drinking.

·        For negotiation to succeed words have to be carriers of dialogue not the weapons in disguise; not arrows tinged with resentment.

·        We can understand rational behavior in terms of its causation by belief or traits of character but can explain irrational beliefs only by finding remote causation.