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“The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is... especially important in psychology... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.”

Important Purpose Values Humanity Language Social Behinds Psychology Movement Discipline Deny Screens Social Science Valuation

Author:Thomas Szasz

“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.”

“There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.”

“Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.”

Ifs Past Social Emotion Break Environment Style Discipline Innovation Structure Endure Bored Assertive Social Structure New Environment

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.”

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...

“Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.”

People Needs Ideas Might Able Social Challenges Creativity Imagine Risk Design Willing Discipline Brilliant Persistence Dreamer Innovators Brilliant Ideas Disagreeable Preconceptions

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

“The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.”

Social Space Discipline Organization Distance Series Remarkable Artificial Ghetto Space Between

Book:Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

Source: Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

“Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a few words, Confucius teaches us about patience, perseverance, discipline, and hard work. But if you probe further, you will see more layers. Confucius' philosophies have significantly influenced spiritual and social thought. His views bear insight and depth of wisdom. You can apply his teachings in every sphere of life. Confucius' profound teachings are based on humanism.”

Ifs Long Doe Matter Hard Philosophy Spiritual Social Views Teach Teaching Example Hard Work Bears Discipline Profound Depth Perseverance Humanism Insight Spheres Layers Few Words

Author:Confucius

“A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.”

Persons Values Culture Social Natural Views Moral Development Discipline Members Mark Responsible Aim Worthy Traits Efficiency Desirable

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.”

Social Media Information Discipline Social Media Substitutes Academic

Author:Bill Nye

“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.”

Two Social Born Church Race Study Century Discipline Authority Highest Enlightenment Europe Posts 19th Century Anti Semitism Darwinism Social Darwinism

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”

“Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education.”

States Spiritual Social Religious Results Evolution Higher Discipline Civilization Excellent Lowest Brutes Social Status Pariahs Britons

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.”

Passion Social Discipline Research Economics Mathematics Historical Over It Expenses Collaboration Get Over Speculation Theoretical Ideological Social Science Historical Research

Author:Thomas Piketty

“That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.”

Source: To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

“Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.”

Social Military Discipline Perfection Servitude Military Discipline

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America