“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.” MenWorldMayChildrenJobsOrderChanceCasesKnowingDoubtSacrificePossibilityCompetitionSakeChosenConfusionSuitsOperationsVulnerabilityUpbringingExclusionBleak Author:Anna Ford
“Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.” MenSpiritualSocialPrinciplesConscienceConfusionPerversion Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.” ThinkingMenWayBelieveIdeasResultsConsciousBoundsContraryConfusionSymbolsHypocrisyInsincerity Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928
“man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.” MenFoundSoundImaginationSocietySightSensesConfusionTendenciesIrrepressibleSight And Sound Author:Arthur Koestler