“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.” KnowsWorldYearsAgeCultureNatureBornCommunityLibertyStruggleGreaterSocietyDyingPossibilityDivineEvolutionEthicsHarmonyInstitutionsIndividualityOld AgeShiftingNonconformityRegenerationEnlightened Society Author:Dee Hock
“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.” TryingFacesCultureSidesClassSocietyDegreesDiversityHighestSocial JusticeSmileDistressSocial ClassClasses Of Society Author:Thomas Fuller
“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.” PeopleDoeSelfMatterFormCultureIndividualForceBornCasesSocietyCivilizationMassOriginalsPossessionEnormousDelusionPlasticCoastEndowment Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.” LastsCultureIndividualSocietyCivilizationElementsAnalysisContributionEntityThreshold Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.” LittlesCultureSocietyHabitEnthusiasmCharmCollectionsCharmingSkimming Author:William Bolitho