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“I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.”

Men Humans Persons Belief Views Powerful Accepting Subjects Authority Behavior Capacity Ideals Dignity Command Rejects Conception Providing Affirmation Laboratory Human Dignity

Author:Stanley Milgram

“It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.”

Humans Natural Careers Study Achievement Historical Unity Conception Natural Science Greatest Achievement

Author:James Henry Breasted

“Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.”

Humans Littles Government Human Beings Understood Institutions Good Things Complexes Granted Complexity Assumption Activist Conception Fragile Lacking Intricate Implicit Complex Systems

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.”

Humans Action Political Powerful Roles Society Advice Ears Currents Conception Misconception Whispering Contributing Human Actions Words Of Advice

Book:A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

Source: A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”

Source: Silent Spring

“...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.”

“The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.”

Believe Humans Stills States Play Stories Fall Sex Sin Views Human Nature Originals Profound Innocence Conception Sinfulness

Author:E. M. Forster

“The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.”

Humans Ideas Use Law Common Air Communication Productions Conception Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Rule Of Law

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a new life comes into being with a complete genetic blueprint. The sex is determined. The blood type is determined. The moment that I learned the unborn was not part of the woman's body but its own individual human being, I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.”

Humans Moments Body Government Choices Individual Sex Human Beings Blood Type Murder Determined Innocent Vulnerable Conception New Life Unborn Blueprints Women's Bodies Blood Type

Author:Kathy Ireland

“The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.”

People Humans States Whole Spiritual Values Understood Whole Life Conception Fascism Units Fascists Synthesis Spiritual Values

Author:Benito Mussolini