“I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?” ThinkingOpportunitySimpleAnswersCommonAttitudeLibertyHavensColdSpreadFree WillRight AnswersUnderminingImpliedCommon Cold Book:Stand on Zanzibar Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.” KindEndsUseBodyEarthAsksAnswersMinesFlowerPrideShiningSpreadHeavenlyHerbsHeavenly Bodies Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.” HeartMotherVoiceAnswersFeetSweetArmsReturnSightDancingSpreadInfant Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie
“The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest requirement of morality. But in what did the improvement consist? The answer seemed so obvious to them that they did not bother to justify it: the expansion and fulfillment of the material wants of man, and the spread of these benefits, from the few who had once preempted them, to the many who had so long lived on the scraps Dives had thrown into the gutter.” MenWantLongAnswersConditionsHe ManMaterialsMoralityBenefitsHighestPhilosopherObviousSpreadImprovementBotherFulfillmentThrownJustifyConsumerismExpansionRequirementsScrapOverconsumptionGutters Author:Lewis Mumford