“We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.” ArtGovernmentNextLiteratureChurchStudyMankindObjectsDutyFineWorshipCreatorDevotedExtensionsFine ArtsTrue Worship Author:Pope Leo X
“Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.” MindLittlesEasyAbilityPositionObjectsDevotedSplendidLittle MindsGrimm Author:Wendell Phillips
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.” MenWayLawOrderIndividualTakenObjectsSickInstitutionsIllnessDefenseTransformedIsolatedDevotedLaw And OrderTechniciansSick Man Book:The Practice of Everyday Life Source: The Practice of Everyday Life
“Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.” ThinkingWayHumansProblemNationsSocialClassStudySuccessfulMovementObjectsBenefitsCreatingSolutionsIllusionCapitalismEuropeOvercomingRelationWesternProductiveCapitalistDevotedNew WaysExploitationWorking ClassSocial LifeStrengtheningInhumanityWestern EuropeSocial Relations Author:Allen W. Wood