Home / Quotes / Quote by Fred Hollows

Quote by Fred Hollows

“Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.”

Quote by Fred Hollows

Author

Fred Hollows was an Australian ophthalmologist renowned for his contributions to the field of ophthalmology. He dedicated his career to eliminating blindness worldwide, particularly in developing countries. Dr. Hollows' work helped millions of patients regain their sight and promoted the expansion of eye care services. more

You May Also Like

“At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.”

Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays

“Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper.”

Men Long Facts Use Form Principles Economy Theory Offers Characteristics Temper Traits Persist Bourgeois Obsolete Superfluous Discarded Scientific Theory

Author:Max Horkheimer

“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.”

Literature Understanding Understanding And Love

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful occupation. Any protest against such efforts, in the name of freefom from restrictive conditions, would be fruitless if science did not naïvely identify the abstractions called rules and laws with the actually efficacious forces, and confuse the probability that B will follow A with the actual effort make B follow A.”

Ifs Would Be Law Order Names Force Effort Conditions Events Research Connections Determine Protest Occupation Endeavor Probability Abstraction Scientific Research

Author:Max Horkheimer

“Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ... Rationality in the form of such obedience swallows up everything, even the freedom to think.”

Thinking Men Form Law Desire Morality Civilization Western Obedience Secular Rationality Western Civilization Desire To Live

Book:Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

Source: Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

“The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.”

Produce Conscience Machines Rationality Compulsion Allegiance Inversions

Author:Max Horkheimer

“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.”

Men Humans Children Reason Reality Law Spirit Poor Moral Wife Subjects Materials Shapes Concern Pressure Misery Eras Autonomy Cunning Workshops Supplements Introverted

Author:Max Horkheimer

“With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.”

Thinking Left Impossible Ego Understood Philosophical Abolition Aloof

Book:Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

Source: Zeitschrift Fur Sozialforschung

“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.”

World Father Effort Practice Ideology Rebellion Possessed Replaced Crops Adjustment

Author:Max Horkheimer

“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”