“The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.” KnowsMenNeedsKindIdeasFieldsTaughtTheoryCrisisMajorityAlternativesErasGuidanceDependentDominantUnfamiliarTimes Of Crisis Book:Ominous Parallels Source: Ominous Parallels
“The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.” PeopleWellsSpiritCrisisMajorityThis LifeSundayAfternoonSpotlightSunday Afternoons Book:Writing Home Source: Writing Home
“We're in a very, very profound crisis. It's so obvious that no one in the power structure, either the corporate power structure or the political power structure, knows what to do or is willing to do what's necessary in relationship both to global war and global warming. It's so obvious that conditions are getting worse for the great majority of Americans. It's so obvious also that we face a very serious danger from people who feel, see themselves only as victims. And we have to somehow, in a very loving way, help the American people to recover the best that is in our traditions.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsWarHelpingFacesPoliticalConditionsDangerWillingSeriousTraditionCrisisVictimMajorityStructureProfoundObviousCorporateGlobal WarmingPolitical Power Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.” HumansDoeShowsOpinionSeriousCreatingConcernScientistClaimsCrisisAgreeMajorityGlobal WarmingActivistOverwhelmingComponentsSurveysMeteorologists Author:James Taylor
“The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.” YearsWarDoneThreeGoneDemocracyMovementCrisisMajorityVietnamThree YearsAntiwarVietnam War Author:Bill Ayers
“Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.” IfsWayShouldGovernmentLeftAreasCrisisMajorityVicesTerroristSyriaCiviliansVice VersaDon't Trust Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.” StatesCareRepublicanTaxesHappeningsGunCrisisMajorityPressesStartingHearingImmigrationResistanceReformHealth CareOppositionGovernorsObamacareCoverageTax Reform Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.” WorldRealReasonDoneHumanityGivenWaterAcceptingDemocracyTakenResourcesPaidCrisisMajorityEnvironmentalWesternComparisonCubaBourgeoisPrecariousMilitarismGreat BusinessPandemicsReal TruthEnvironmental CrisisParticipatory DemocracyWater Crisis Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.” PeoplePoliticalLanguageStreetsWallCreatingOrdinaryCrisisMajorityComplexesCrowdsOrdinary PeopleUrgentParticipantsFluent Author:Matt Taibbi
“With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicans’ embrace of a broken immigration system.” PeopleThinkingHumansTodayHouseLostChanceMoralMovementBrokenRepublicanLaborVoteCrisisMajorityEmbraceCongressImmigrationRepresentativesCitizenshipArrestedRippedDemographicsHouse Of RepresentativesPollingDeportationLabor MovementMoral Crisis Author:Arlene Holt Baker