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“Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.”

Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Politics Strong Freedom Liberty Power Democracy Movement Mass Significant Socialism Strongest Revolt Inertia Democracy Freedom

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.”

Freedom Movement Cells Isolation Scream Austria Prussia Muzzle

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”

Problem Government Political Passion Individual Social Freedom Movement Depends Institutions Solve Motivated Social Movements

Author:Margaret Mead

“This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.”

Should Humans Humanity Individual Freedom Human Beings Democracy Mankind Movement Should Have Democratic Crowds Paradox Humankind Being Free

Author:Walter Lippmann

“The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.”

Ends Freedom Liberty Rights Minutes Movement Politician Equal Equality Civil Rights Professors 1960s Equal Rights Civil Rights Movement Civil Society Montgomery Civil Right Movement

Author:Julian Bond

“In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.”

Men Persons Ideas Reality Order Given Freedom Conditions Mankind Security Information Movement Resources Prosperity Certainty Assurance Free Movement

Author:Antoine Pinay

“The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.”

“From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West."”