Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Quotes about superstructure (8 Quotes)
PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio. Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend demonstration, and without which he can do nothing. His superstructure indeed is demonstration, but his ground his faith. Nor again can he get further than telling a man he is a fool if he persists in differing from him. He says 'which is absurd,' and declines to discuss the matter further. Faith and authority, therefore, prove to be as necessary for him as for anyone else.
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.