“Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.” InspirationalSometimesLightSocialCan DoConditionsBuddhismCan Do SomethingSocial Conditions Author:Frederick Lenz
“The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.” InspirationalDifferentActionOrderSocialChangePoorPovertySocietyDemandGenerousChanging The WorldMaking A DifferenceReliefTheologianMaking ChangesSocial Order Author:Gustavo Gutiérrez
“I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.” InspirationalFunnySocialAnimalInterestingTalkingInformationSakeBoringLikesBunchConcreteEngineersSailSailingReally Interesting Author:Temple Grandin
“The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.” InspirationalNeedsArtStatesOrderNextLiteratureSocialStageDevelopmentSocial OrderStages Of Development Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.” InspirationalWellsMayArtPhilosophyFormValuesCoursesLiteratureSocialNovelFieldsAdventureElementsIntellectualRaisedBrilliantScalesPsychologicalAnalysisDetectivesAdoptingDostoyevsky Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).” InspirationalArtLawLiteratureEnergySocialNumbersGreaterRevolutionUniversalInfiniteFinalsCosmicConservationEntropyUniversal LawsSocial RevolutionDissipationEnergy Conservation Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.” MenInspirationalYearsArtPhilosophyProblemMovingLiteratureSocialMountainIdealsDivinityRemoveLive ByFerventSocial ProblemsMove MountainsChekhov Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin