Abuse (n.) is no argument against a things use.
Abuse (n.) is an indirect species of homage.
Abuse (n.) is a misnomer insofar as we use things but relate to persons, thus we cannot properly speak of abusing people, only of relating to them lovingly or hatefully, honestly or dishonestly, forgivingly or revengefully.
Abuse (n.) is the weapon of the vulgar.
Activism (n.) is about creating new moralities which, when they gain the authority of mass acceptance, can inform changes in our societies. The future is given birth in the turmoil of people acting together politically.
Activism (n.) is effective. What history suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.
Activism (n.) is our rent for living on this planet.
Activism (n.) is transgression, an assault on the way social norms, beliefs, inequalities and oppressions are reproduced.
Adapt (n.) is like a tree growing around the fence someone nailed to it.
Adapt (n.) is to change shape and be congratulated on your growth.
Adapt (n.) is to stop noticing the thing you swore you would never get used to.
to Adapt (n.) is to sacrifice a remote good to an immediate necessity.
Aggression (n.) is an expression of a basic state or basic need within the individual, rather than a response to external demands.
Aggression (n.) is the most general human tendency to overcome feelings of inferiority through self-assertion and is a necessity of life.
Aggression (n.) is not a force, but an action capacity for integrating psychic functions in the service of attaining a motivational aim.
Aggression (n.) is what underlies the drive to be outstanding, to be unstoppable, to compete, to win—to be actively virtuous, at least along one dimension.