“To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.” ArtArtistStreetsCenturyExpressionWallMessagesArt IsFreedom Of ExpressionOccupy Wall Street Author:Peter M. Brant
“The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.” LastsClearEffectsCenturyMessagesStandardsEconomicsGoldTradeProfitPursuitDoctrineEnterpriseOrthodoxQuartersDominantNineteenth CenturyFree TradePrivate EnterpriseGold Standard Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory
“It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.” PeopleIfsMenWayChildrenHas BeensMadeDifferentFoundJesusUnderstandingBornNumbersMillionsImpossibleHappenedCenturyChangedTaughtBirthMessagesMen And WomenTwentiesCaughtDifferent ThingsNew WaysCaught UpUnderstanding LifeJesus Birth Author:Frederick Buechner
“Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.” GivingTryingImportantPhilosophyTermCenturyMessagesMythDistortionValidity Author:Seth
“After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.” CountryDiesTurnsForceCenturySucceedMessagesArmyExcuseBoatShoreInvasionLandingConquistadors Author:Lou Holtz
“As we move forward into this 21st century, we encourage all of you to take a positive step toward universal understanding. Touch people with the message of love. Pray for the peace and happiness of people in all other lands and cultures. Make a commitment to world peace by honoring the earth, honoring its people, and celebrating the unity of the human spirit.” PeopleWorldHumansEarthMovingSpiritCultureUnderstandingStepsLandCenturyPrayingMessagesCommitmentUniversalUnityMoving ForwardCelebrate21st CenturyHuman SpiritPeace And HappinessPray Love Author:Masami Saionji
“I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.” PeopleThinkingShouldPersonsHandsMightDiesAbilityWonderfulShareTeachingCenturyMessagesGloryMouthsMereLipsMourningBrilliance Author:Charles Spurgeon