“We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of themmost people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationthey are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.” PeopleThinkingWayWantHas BeensSocialEnvironmentVoteSacredMajorityPatternsWork OutOur SocietyManipulationCowsWishful ThinkingSacred CowsSocial Environment Author:David Gerrold
“Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.” PeopleIfsMayPersonsSocialWealthMoralTalentDivineKingsAuthorityConsequenceVoteInstitutionsSacredMajorityStructureExtraordinarySymbolsJustifyConceptionRulersAristocracyEndowmentEmblemsSocial StructureDivine RightDivine Right Of Kings Author:C. Wright Mills
“An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes.” PeopleBodyIndividualBeliefSocialGroupsAtheismHeroSacredPositive AtheismIdeologyDefinedDocumentsIdentifyingSocial Groups Author:Robert E Lane
“I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are interested in alternative health who are never going to become doctors, or practitioners. That is how I am about politics. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.” SpiritualPoliticalSpeakSocialInterestPowerfulPrinciplesIssuesAreasSacredRealmsIntersectionsPolitical Issues Author:Marianne Williamson
“Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.” MenGivingLawHouseSocialNaturalPayConditionsExerciseConscienceOriginalsSacredPropertyDebtProtectionTitlesCastlesFederalistPactFederalist Papers Book:Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison
“Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it, as the most sacred of all our civil and social duties... It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and patriotism.” PeopleFirstsCoursesIndividualSocialLibertyVirtueDutyBlessingSacredObligationPreserves Author:John C. Calhoun
“As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.” MenHumansFactsProblemOrderIndividualSocialExistenceBloodHe ManRedConcernedImportanceSacredTerrorHuman LifeRevolutionaryOppositionIronVegetarianSovietHistoricSanctionsSocial OrderSacrednessQuaker Author:Leon Trotsky
“If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.” IfsFeelsProblemPoliticalSpiritIndividualSocialWalksPathEconomicSacredConnectedness Author:Satish Kumar
“Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.” LongSocialFoodColdSacredCookingBeerCulinaryBelongingPrimeRitualThroatFluidIntercourseAccompanyConfirmationBlokesAnointingBrewing BeerCold Beer Author:Rennie Ellis
“All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens” NationsSocialSecurityDutyCitizensBenefitsSacredGuaranteesSeniorSocial SecuritySenior Citizen Author:Steve King
“Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.” KnowsWorldYearsBelieveMayRealEndsCountryMatterStatesReasonFactsSeemsNextSocialCenturyCitizensCircumstancesAuthorityHundredSacredUnityPermanentPhrasesTemporaryOne TimeArtificialArrangementsOptimist20th CenturyFashionableObsoleteAccommodationsAll State Author:Strobe Talbott
“The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does, no social ideal or sacred constitution as the North American does, no pervasive mythology to soften life as it does in Asia, and no even an ideology to subscribe to, as does the Russian or Chinese. Without wealth, what is there left to him but his manhood, to be flaunted and defended at every occasion?” DoeFallLeftSocialWealthRightsIdealsConstitutionSacredMythologyIdeologyOccasionsChineseLatinTribesManhoodAsiaLatin AmericaFall BackJudiciaryLatin AmericanEvery Occasion Author:Ted Simon
“Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.” MenWorldHumansTodayLastsSocialSidesBornReligiousStageDangerThis WorldDutyMetsEternalShadowIndependentSacredThreatPunishmentThinkerHeresyHereafterFreedom Of ThoughtHuman SocietySuppressionPriesthoodDamnation Author:Chapman Cohen
“The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.” DoePlaySpiritCultureSocialBornGrewCivilizationPureGrew UpSacredCompetitionDancingAriseImpulseRitualPhases Author:Johan Huizinga
“All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.” MayCountryMatterFactsSeemsSocialCircumstancesSacredPermanentTemporaryOne TimeArtificialArrangementsAccommodations Author:Strobe Talbott