“The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to affect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.” PeopleThinkingMayMadeWarMomentsSpiritForgetLibertySupportRightsForgottenDuesConclusionMaking MoneyFacultySoleRulersResortsCarelessReviveShacklesUnitingDisregarded Author:Thomas Jefferson
“If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.” IfsMomentsWisdomConditionsReadyCommunicateOpeningLengthPresent MomentFacultyBreadth Author:Thomas Cogswell Upham
“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.” MenFeelsMomentsLife IsValuesAcceptingCasesCreativeHe ManBecomingWesternSatisfactionDependentFacultyFrustratedSymptomsNeuroticWorth LivingLife Is Not Worth LivingWestern Values Author:Paul Robeson
“men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.” MenDoeHas BeensDonePhilosophyMomentsHappensBornLevelsClassMagicParticularBirthConceptsUniversalCriminalsFaculty Book:The Straight Mind: And Other Essays Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays