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“If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.”

Ifs Enough Political Social Causes Attitude Effects Balance Intellectual Trade Credit Positive Attitude Sheets Reparations

Book:God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas

Source: God and Intelligence in Modern Philosophy: A Critical Study in the Light of the Philosophy of Saint Thomas

“The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.”

“Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.”

“We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.”

May Social Attitude Groups Modern Revolution Normal Atheist Arguing Discourse Homosexual

Author:Philip Warren Anderson

“Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.”

Important Life Is Social Attitude Talent Appearance Social Status

Author:Stephanie Dowrick

“Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!”

“The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his message comes from the Gospel, not from one ideology or another.And so, if our economic systems are not oriented toward the human person but only concerned with profits, he wants to confront the system and change it. This, by the way, is common to all the popes, it comes directly from the so-called social teachings of the church.”

“Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.”

Ifs Men Needs School Political Social Education Attitude Democracy Shapes Capable Critical Doctrine

Author:Albert Einstein

“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.”

Able Success Order Nations Social Race Attitude Economy Strange Degrees Behavior Diversity Success And Failure Social Order Cultural Diversity National Economy Behavior And Attitude

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“Many more children observe attitudes, values and ways different from or in conflict with those of their families, social networks,and institutions. Yet today's young people are no more mature or capable of handling the increased conflicting and often stimulating information they receive than were young people of the past, who received the information and had more adult control of and advice about the information they did receive.”

People Way Children Different Today Past Young Values Social Attitude Advice Information Conflict Capable Adults Institutions Mature Social Network

Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

“America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.”

America Next Social Attitude Changed Wake Up Remarkable Next Day

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.”

Men Universe Social Attitude Morality Standards Determined Defined Customs Ignored Timeless Immorality Impunity Changing Attitude

Book:Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions: Marriage & Sexuality

Source: Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions: Marriage & Sexuality

“A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.”

Men Art Social Differences Attitude Groups He Man Symphony Social Groups Mahler

Author:Anthony Burgess

“MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.”

Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness

“Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity.”

Way Social Attitude Productivity

Book:Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.”

Way Art Individual Social Loses Attitude Progress Depends Diversity Spring Patterns Tolerance Conventional Imperatives Adjustment Deviation Conventional Ways

Author:Alan Barth

“Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.”

Humans Government Form Social Wealth Attitude Liberty Various Engineering Regulation Manipulate Human Relations Civil Liberties Human Relationships Personal Freedom Government Regulation Social Engineering Redistribution Of Wealth

Author:Richard Ebeling

“But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.”

People Ifs Men World Doe Stills Social Dark Sin Attitude Accepting Practice Acceptance Dependent Interpretation Righteousness Conventions Homosexuality Deep Dark Social Acceptance

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices.”

Thinking Way Should Facts Seems Choices Culture Social Attitude Destiny Media Industry Paid Advertising Valleys Technological Funding Silicon Silicon Valley Insurgent Retrograde

Author:Astra Taylor

“People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.”

People Thinking Ideas Social Lines Attitude Progressive Don't Change Straight Lines Backlash

Author:Erica Jong

“Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.”

Knows Social Race Attitude Approach South Reactions Hypocritical

Author:Malcolm X

“I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have been running the countries for years. They are severely declining. You can see it in voting; you can see it also in popular attitudes: contempt for what are called "the élites," the experts, the people in charge.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Country Running Social Attitude Happenings Democrat Conservative Experts Voting Contempt Collapse Coalitions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.”

Thinking Life May Mean Social Attitude Position Where You Live

Author:George Matthew Adams

“In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.”

Ifs Years Use Moving Force Social Powerful Attitude Responsibility Company Practice Greater Influence Media Capitalism Tools Social Media Consumers Social Responsibility

Author:Simon Mainwaring

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