“They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.” DoneSpiritualPoliticalSocialWomenEconomicEnlightenmentRepressionIdeological Author:Frederick Lenz
“The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.” PoliticalSocialWomenCreatingEnlightenmentSlaveryRepressionIdeologicalMobilityDeprivingDecisiveness Author:Frederick Lenz
“With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are necessary for women to free themselves and become all that they are capable of being.” MenGivenSocialWomenCapableEnlightenmentEducationalImaginaryMandates Author:Frederick Lenz
“Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.” KnowsPoliticalTurnsSocialBuddhismEnlightenmentClubsClique Author:Frederick Lenz
“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.” IfsMenGivingShouldYearsMindYoungSpiritSocialConsciousnessTakenCollegeDisciplineTasteTrainingStandardsEnlightenmentLaborCatholicInsightReleaseFaithfulGentlemanVowCandorGive And TakeManlinessSportsmanEsprit De CorpsYoung Gentlemen Author:Woodrow Wilson
“With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.” OrderSocialDevelopmentMessagesEnlightenmentCapitalismIdealsInjusticeLibertarianSocialismIdeologyRadicalHumanistEmergingSocial OrderEnlightenment And Love Book:The Essential Chomsky Source: The Essential Chomsky
“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.” TwoSocialBornChurchRaceStudyCenturyDisciplineAuthorityHighestEnlightenmentEuropePosts19th CenturyAnti SemitismDarwinismSocial Darwinism Author:Jonathan Sacks
“Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.” WarAmericaSocialProcessRaceMilitaryEnlightenmentHumanitarianReformEmancipationRace In America Book:Prefaces TO PEACE Source: Prefaces TO PEACE
“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.” RealActionPoliticalSocialReligiousEffortLibertyProgressEconomicRevolutionMassEnlightenmentMinoritiesSocial ChangeEmanate Author:Emma Goldman
“Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental, physical, or social. Attachment and resistance are appearances with the same root: when you resist by pulling away your awareness, the emotion is one of fear, and the contraction is experienced as a pull like magnetism or gravity; that is, attachment. That is why we often fear to open our minds to more exalted spiritual beings. We think fear is a signal to withdraw, when in fact it is a sign we are already withdrawing too much.” ThinkingMindMayFactsSpiritualSocialEmotionToo MuchAwarenessEnlightenmentRootsStructureAppearanceResistanceAttachmentGravityPullingSignalsClueExaltedSpiritual BeingsMagnetismContractionsWithdrawingPulling Away Author:Thaddeus Golas
“Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.” IfsMenMeanReasonEvilBeliefForceSocialFateProgressCryAuthorityIntellectualEnlightenmentOvercomingPressureBlindSlavePatternsDemonFairyAweEmancipationSuperstitiousSocial Pressure Book:EPZ Eclipse of Reason Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason
“We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.” MayChristianNationsSocialWrittenEnlightenmentBasesConstitutionBelieverContractsVoidBiblicalFoundingSocial ContractNull Author:Cal Thomas
“Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.” TryingMindMayRealMatterSeemsPoliticalSufferingBeliefSocialReligiousExistenceTypeConflictLimitsMindfulnessEnlightenmentConceptsRootsOvercomingProfoundConvictionInsightAbandonNeglectTrapsDualityIntegratingDualism Author:Namkhai Norbu
“A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.” SpiritualSocialBreakEnlightenmentBarriersTemporaryDeliciousBreaking DownItemsDelicious FoodSpiritual EnlightenmentBurritos Author:Lisi Harrison
“ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.” GivingStatesGovernmentOrderSocialMeditationFailingSpringEnlightenmentUniversalDoctrineDamnAbolitionPrerequisitesSocial Order Author:Kerry Thornley
“Enlightenment precedes change.” WisdomSocialChangeKnowledgeSocietyEnlightenmentDiscoveryNewDiscoveriesPrecedes Author:Steven Magee
“Change through enlightenment.” WisdomSocialChangeKnowledgeSocietyEnlightenmentDiscoveryNewDiscoveriesThrough Author:Steven Magee