One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.
Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.
If regional associations are created, they should work on the basis of WTO norms, on the WTO basis.
Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association
The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.
I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act.
I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I`m not a member.