“Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.” ArtAgeCertainIndividualReligiousGeniusArt IsTraditionSupremeStatementsTraditionalAbandonedHeroicReligious Truth Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.” OrderIndividualBeliefSocialResultsProgressEconomicExpressionEqualBehaviorCapitalismProfitSupremeRulersCreedsMarxismAbolitionThis SocietySocial OrderSocial BehaviorEconomic ProgressFreedom And Equality Author:Peter Drucker
“The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory... "The supremacy of corporate economic power... consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation... [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.” WorldWellsPoliticalOrderIndividualDecisionDealsEconomicDirectorsCourtPropertySupremeCorporateCorporationsOwnersTerritoryAmendmentsProtectedSupreme CourtCompetingArenaSupremacyLouisianaEconomic PowerNew DealCorporate WorldEconomic OrderCourt DecisionFourteenth Amendment Author:C. Wright Mills
“Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.” SaidMatterIndividualInterestCommunityCommonConditionsDevelopmentPureSupremePursueGoodsCommon GoodIndividual Power Author:William Ernest Hocking
“An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.” MenIndividualNationsChristStageSupremeYieldIndividualismLureSupreme BeingHedonismGrandioseLeviathan Author:Andre Malraux
“Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.” SelfFacesIndividualExistenceSuccessfulConditionsPersonalityDeterminationUniversalAbsolutesIndividualitySupremeRealizationSelf DeterminationAffirmationAdaptationInnate Author:Carl Jung
“... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.” ShowsIndividualBlackSupportRightsProtectCourtNotionFolksHearingSupremeCivil RightsOutcomesSolidaritySupreme CourtDissentCritiqueAppointmentsMisguided Author:Bell Hooks