“Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire." But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.” MenCountryStoriesAmericaDesireSexAttitudeGroupsWorstArmsGrewDrinkCivilizationGrew UpRemainsWesternPatternsAdvertisingObsessedLeisureAmerican HistoryConsumptionFamily LifeWestern CivilizationMicrocosmCoca ColaFunny StorySoft Drinks Author:Mark Pendergrast
“The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.” HumansCountrySocialRightsGroupsSecurityRemainsStrategyHuman RightsInequalityPromotionEliminatingSocial Groups Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.” PeopleIfsKindMeanStatesSpeakMoralDemocracyGroupsCreationAuthorityRemainsDemocraticBottomViolentAll KindsOppressionCapitalistFalsehoodOrganizePersuasionHostileAnarchismBourgeoisSmall GroupsPacifist Author:Jacques Ellul
“I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.” IfsMadeImportantMovingNationsUnderstandingGroupsRemainsMythMythologyInvisibleLive ByObscure Author:Marina Warner
“I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.” PeopleIfsWellsPlayTermGroupsHonestOkayRemainsWho I AmBeing HonestObscure Author:Brad Mehldau
“Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.” StillsLossGroupsSpecialDangerousCarParticularRemainsIraqInnocentBombsAlsCiviliansMilitiaResidual Author:David Petraeus
“Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.” GivingPersonsSaidMightDarknessGroupsIgnoranceGiving UpElectionRemainsSpeciesLocalsAbsurdThis DayFrighteningAbrahamSupremacyAscendancy Author:George Carlin
“Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.” ThinkingNeedsChallengesAcceptingGroupsPossibilityDiversityRemainsMajorityEverydayDiscriminationEveryday Life Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton
“Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.” IfsDoeBookIdeasActionIndividualPowerfulGroupsRemainsFleshParagraphFootnotes Book:The Revolution of Hope Source: The Revolution of Hope