“Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.” GivingJobsLostProductsFinancialCreditObjectivesAgencyAccurateRatingMinnesotans Author:Al Franken
“This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.” SelfMomentsInterestProductsHighestIdealsUniversalObjectivesInevitableHypocrisyEnterpriseEndeavorVirtuousRationality Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263) Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)
“But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.” ChallengesDestinyOur LivesSocietyProductsSafeLaborFinalsFinishedObjectivesWorking ItMarvelousIdealismHarborsGreat SocietyBeckoningFinished WorkSafe Harbor Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.” ThinkingMenWorldHardYoungValuesCultureRoomsRaceProductsAimObjectivesYoung ManRejectedRatsResignationRat RaceMilieuObjective Truth Author:Paul Goodman
“One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.” ThinkingWayMindLooksTwoMatterPhilosophyRealityConsciousnessProductsIllusionExtremesObjectivesOne WayPhenomenonStrictIdealistDeterminismCollisionPhilosophicObjective Reality Author:Edgar Mitchell