“In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.” PeopleReasonChristianSocialChurchBasesConvictionChristian InspirationalLacking Author:Vance Havner
“To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.” NeedsDesireSocialCitizensCapitalismConvictionIgnorantAlternativesRenunciationGood CitizenUnforgivableAnti Social Author:Ivan Illich
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.” LiteratureSocialToo MuchProductionsConvictionGravesInjuryOffense Author:George Eliot
“In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.” ThinkingPersonsIdeasSeemsSocialLossGriefEconomicLosingThreatPrivilegeFollowingConvictionLovelyLogicalFairnessIncapableSequencePremisesAlarmsLucidity Author:Storm Jameson
“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.” IfsMindLongPurposeEvilSocialGoneConvictionRemedySocial Evils Book:The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London Source: The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London
“I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.” Has BeensProblemSocialEconomicEconomicsConvictionDisturbingSocial ScienceTheoristsEconomic Problems Author:Kenneth E. Boulding