“The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.” MayFeelingsEconomicMachinesSlavePrecise Author:Norbert Wiener
“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.” IfsWantFirstsHumansHas BeensWarRealDoneFeelingsPoliticalDesireTurnsNationsCausesOpinionEconomicPrejudiceConvictionObstaclesPsychologicalRulersHuman Will Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals
“The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.” GivingHumansRealFactsFeelingsHandsRealityActionPoliticalIndividualHuman BeingsAnswersMistakeEconomicSubjectsObjectsResearchExplanationSufficientAbstractApplicationSociologyPsychoanalysisThoughts And FeelingsSociologicalPsychoanalytic Author:Erich Fromm
“Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.” IfsMenHumansRealEnoughFeelingsProblemMovingPoliticalLossViewsVirtueEconomicOughtModestMasculinityConfusingUsefulnessHad EnoughTacklingMaleness Author:Ellen Willis
“Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.” PeopleTryingFeelingsSpiritThreeChallengesTechnologyProgressEconomicYouthInspireAreasAncientIsraelDuesPartnersEnterpriseImmigrantsExileThree ThingsIsraeliHomelandScience And TechnologyDiasporaPioneeringResurgencePioneering Spirit Author:David Ben-Gurion