“Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate--in short, the emancipation from fear--then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render.” IfsMenMeanReasonEvilBeliefForceSocialFateProgressCryAuthorityIntellectualEnlightenmentOvercomingPressureBlindSlavePatternsDemonFairyAweEmancipationSuperstitiousSocial Pressure Book:EPZ Eclipse of Reason Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason
“Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.” WayAmericaSocialSecurityExampleChangedNewsPressureProductiveOur SocietyRetirementSocial SecurityProductive LifeGreat News Author:Norm Coleman
“Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.” HomePoliticalSocialEconomicPressureJewGravesDistressShifting Author:Theodor Herzl
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.” SelfGirlSocialPressurePortionsDisplayAdolescenceAuthentic SelfSocial ServiceSocial Pressure Book:Reviving Ophelia Source: Reviving Ophelia
“As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.” IfsMenHumansMayHas BeensRealityCultureEnergySocialAnimalQualityProgressEconomicProductsDevelopmentReturnLaborPressureStriveCharacteristicsLazyQuantityStrifeHuman ProgressGeneral Education Author:Leon Trotsky
“In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.” YearsFirstsChildrenMotherSocialGrowingAirDutyQuietSixPressureExtraordinaryEducationalSecureWakingPassiveReceptiveFresh Air Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.” SocialGrowsSecurityFitPressureFinancialBurdenEaseMore MoneySocial SecurityElderlyFinancial Burden Author:Cal Thomas
“The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.” Has BeensStatesWholeSocialUnitedRolesUnited StatesGroupsMiddleCrimeFieldsGoes OnEuropePressureBottomPrivilegeJewEastNeighborVulnerableMiddle EastExploitationPalacesPeasantsAnti SemitismSocial PressureNoblemen Author:Aurora Levins Morales