“I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour” ThinkingHas BeensIdeasNextSuccessfulPeriodsOfficeFundamentalsGreenDemocraticCarefulInequalityReformLabourAgendasNew IdeasExtendingTackling Author:Peter Hain
“There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age.” FirstsKindArtWholeFeelingsAgeSpiritualFormLostResultsMoralPeriodsIdealsSightFundamentalsTendenciesAtmosphereLogicalRevivalPursuedSimilarityInner Feelings Book:Concerning the spiritual in art Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.” ThinkingKnowsMenBelieveLooksLongSelfGovernmentLawPoliticalIndividualForceNaturalLibertyPovertyCrimeDevelopmentPeriodsExerciseElementsFlowVoteFundamentalsMiseryCampaignsConfusionReliefAnarchismAnarchistBeggingNatural LawPolitical CampaignPersonal LibertyChanges In SocietyNatural Elements Author:Lucy Parsons
“When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in our power to fight and to win the war on terror? That's the fundamental question this generation faces.” LooksChildrenWarFacesFightingWinningGenerationsPeriodsOur ChildrenFundamentalsTerrorGrandchildrenWar On TerrorThis GenerationChildren And Grandchildren Author:George W. Bush
“Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.” LiteraturePeriodsFundamentalsSignificantStabilityRapids Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.” RolesPeriodsCrisisFundamentalsProfoundBritainDeclineDominantInabilityInstability Author:Martin Jacques
“The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.” SelfMomentsUniverseCommonMankindAdventurePeriodsScientistFundamentalsDetailsBelieverSatisfiedCommon SenseCuriousDelusionCherishNoveltySkepticDogmaticPhilosophicFinalityDogmatism Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.” PeopleHumansI CanLawFallHuman BeingsRightsImaginePeriodsEqualFundamentalsFalling In LoveHuman RightsJewInstanceOrthodox Author:Susan Jacoby
“'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.” WorldWayHumansEndsActionForcePowerfulTechnologySeriousPeriodsIndependentFundamentalsDistanceThreatPopulationDomainTransformingAutonomousHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson
“I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men.” MenWorldHas BeensRealMightCultureTermPeriodsIntellectualFemaleDifficultyFundamentalsMalesAssumptionSexismReal WorldScholarPatriarchyDefects Author:Adrienne Rich
“The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.” PeopleWorldShouldBelieveSelfFeelingsLife IsMy OwnClearRightsPeriodsReflectionShould HaveEarsFundamentalsDon't BelieveCalmRingsLoudThoughtfulSuicidalMy Own LifeFree SocietyLove AlwaysWendyFundamental Rights Author:Wendy O. Williams
“The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of physics has there been witnessed such a period of intense activity when discoveries of fundamental importance have followed one another with such bewildering rapidity.” YearsHas BeensAgeScienceHistoryHeroPeriodsActivityDiscoveryImportanceFundamentalsPhysicsIntenseHeroicPhysical Science Author:Ernest Rutherford
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.” ThinkingKnowsBelieveLongSelfPoliticalIndividualDevelopmentPeriodsVoteFundamentalsCampaignsAnarchyAnarchismAnarchistBeggingPolitical CampaignChanges In Society Book:Freedom, Equality and Solidarity Source: Freedom, Equality and Solidarity
“The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.” FirstsHumansDoeStoriesEarthSpiritualFormCultureStarsTeachingCreationPlanetsPeriodsFirst TimeTraditionAgreeFundamentalsSettingSettingsEnterpriseDiminishGalaxyArenaHuman HistoryMagnitudeMineralsCreation Stories Author:Brian Swimme
“Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.” TogetherProcessPeriodsOriginalsFundamentalsWideCollectionsEssaysProvocativeSchmidt Author:Deborah Harkness