“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.” IfsMenWayMeanAbleDifficultClassFateSecurityParticularReadyNeededPeriodsStandardsClaimsFormerUniformsMinimumPrivilegedAvoidingAssuranceAdjustmentFree ManSecuredLapses Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.” NeedsMeanLordClaimsObviousBackwards Author:Francis Maude
“Winter-related accidents and illnesses account for a large number of all senior health-related insurance claims during the winter months. But that doesn't mean that seniors have to sit this season out. By taking a few precautions, seniors can enjoy winter safely and securely.” MeanEnjoyNumbersMonthsSeasonsAccountsClaimsWinterIllnessAccidentsRelatedSeniorLarge NumbersPrecautionWinter MonthsHealth Related Author:Scott Perry
“Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.” IfsMenWayInspirationalMeanMotivationalWealthCompassionPathMaterialsHealthyProveClaimsVariousWell BeingLiberationWealthyCompassionatePossessedMaterial Wealth Author:Thiruvalluvar
“Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.” KnowsMeanLightOrderIndividualAbilityConsciousnessClaimsReally MeanSuccessionTransmitLama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.” MenMeanSeemsTodayCommonRaceBloodFairsAll ThingsClaimsDenyAgreementQuantityInkRecklessAmbiguousExplosives Book:Race: a study in superstition Source: Race: a study in superstition
“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.” MeanCountryStatesActionSpiritualPoliticalReligionPoliticsForceNationsSocialFeltEducationEconomicFieldsEconomicsClaimsInstitutionsLaysEducationalCorporateLengthFascismAssociationFascistsBreadthOrganisedEducational Institutions Author:Benito Mussolini
“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.” LifeLooksMeanSeemsCertainSecretHigherClaimsCherishSatisfyingNurseVulgarCommonplace Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.” PeopleMeanIdeasProblemPoliticalMoralDemocracyIssuesPolicyClaimsCrisisRevolutionaryAgencyGovernanceDemocracies HaveRevolutionary Ideas Author:Bill Moyers