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“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.”

Individual Social Imagination Accepting Creativity Creative Capable Capacity Pressure Caught Intuition Assumption Questioning Peer Pressure Social Pressure False Assumptions

Author:John W. Gardner

“Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties. . . . By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.”

Firsts Home Social Wise Duty Capacity Increase Seeking Accomplish Stewards

Author:Eliza R. Snow

“Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.”

Humans Problem Happens Social Creativity Economic Keys Capacity Things Happen Unlimited Make Things Happen Economic Problems

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”

Humans Reason Lying Social Behavior Elements Ethics Capacity Roots Response Patterns Accepted Ancestor Mammals

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply marked-off classes; it has taught us that original capacities are indefinitely numerous and variable. It is but the other side of this fact to say that in the degree in which society has become democratic, social organization means utilization of the specific and variable qualities of individuals, not stratification by classes.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”

People Self Lasts Social Poor Situation Produce Expression Resources Capacity Chaos Desperate Rebellion Existential Sensibility Poor People Resorts Avenues

Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”

Ifs Men Persons Whole Individual Social Understanding Capable Capacity Fellows Institutions Foundation Stability Fellow Man Capacity To Love

Book:Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”

“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.”

“Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.”

Long Social Enjoy Fashion Return Capacity Balls Deception Guests Approval Another Time Euphemism Masquerade

Author:Freda Adler

“Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.”

People Moving Social Issues Inspire Revolution Capacity Theater Incredibles Addresses Social Change Social Revolution

Author:Eve Ensler

“It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.”

Men Giving Stills Might Political Social Rights Taste Capacity Spheres

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.”

Humans May Has Beens Poetry Literature Social Creativity Capacity Selection Randomness

Author:Geoffrey Miller

“Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.”

Humans Social Ability Violence Media Havens Changed Internet Capacity Fundamentals Social Media Attributes Interaction Propensity Social Interaction

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.”

“The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.”

Source: The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object