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“I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.”

People Thinking Past Order Strong Social Realizing Practice Support Economy Policy Changed Increase Majority Convinced Despite Greek Tension Pursued Prospects

Author:Lucas Papademos

“It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.”

Ifs Hard Certain Social Class Rights Pride Property Privilege Debt Convinced Concrete Property Rights Social Class Specialty

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.”

Men World Has Beens Important Spirit Social Forever He Man Capable Critical Convinced Accomplished Ritual Preservation Barbarism Social Systems Inquiring Silencing Critical Spirit

Book:It Can't Happen Here

Source: It Can't Happen Here

“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”

Should Wells War Order Left Social Numbers Clear Middle Subjects Position Habit Convinced Reform Temperament Social Reform Pacifist Small Numbers Middle Of The Road Unequivocal

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.”

Problem Social Feminism Economic Source Convinced Lists Endless Contemporary Liberation Womens Rights Laundry Scourge Backlash Economic Problems

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.”

World Has Beens Political Language Social Convinced Discourse Suspicious Diplomatic Veracity Public Discourse Meanings Of Words

Book:Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

“I remain a religious agnostic, but, unlike most atheists, I not only am not hostile to traditional religion but consider it a highly valuable, not to say essential, social institution... I am convinced that the moral regeneration and repair of a frayed social fabric that this country so badly needs will not take place unless more people take their religion seriously.”

People Needs Country Christian Social Religious Moral Essentials Institutions Atheist Valuable Convinced Traditional Fabric Agnostic Hostile Regeneration Social Institutions

Book:Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

Source: Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

“I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.”

Long Social Family Convinced Agents Primaries Social Change

Author:Elise M. Boulding