Tacit Quotes
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.
Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans.
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content.
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.
True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.
Why didn’t you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t.
I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.
