“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.” IndividualSocialImaginationAcceptingCreativityCreativeCapableCapacityPressureCaughtIntuitionAssumptionQuestioningPeer PressureSocial PressureFalse Assumptions Author:John W. Gardner
“As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities...” SocialCreativeEconomicPureUniversityCompareContributionUnits Author:Edwin Land
“Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.” ArtLiteratureEnergySocialTechnologyCreativeTalentExampleTheoryPureOrganizationUniversityPlanningUnfoldingOptimalArt MusicMilieuNew TalentSocial Theory Author:Eric Hoffer
“Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.” PeopleKnowsIdeasSeemsEyeAmericaMovingSocialHurtPartyCreativeProgressCenturyMovementRepublicanThousandDemocraticCommittedMysteriousOppositionInternalsPropositionsTwentieth CenturyDemocratic PartyMoving InSocial ProgressCombustion Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.” ThinkingBelieveMeanSpiritualCultureI BelieveNationsSocialProcessImaginationEconomyCreativeIssuesEnvironmentPlanetsBalanceHonorResourcesDollarsSpeciesChecksAcknowledgeSustainabilityCreative ProcessDominantConservationSocial ChangeReservedIgniteDominant CultureHonor And Respect Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life.” ShouldLawForceSocialCreativeMereReconciliationSocial Life Author:Mary Parker Follett
“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.” DoeIdeasPhilosophyPoliticalSocialInterestKnownEconomyCreativeGrowingFlowerSettingSettingsSoilPhenomenonReach OutLocationBe CreativeVacuumsStalkingBalloonsCreative IdeasPolitical Economy Book:Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard
“The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.” FirstsPersonsImportantReligionSocialCreativeRightsConditionsSeriousSpeechConstitutionSettingSettingsAlternativesGuaranteesAmendmentsFirst AmendmentSocial Conditions Book:Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock Source: Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock
“The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.” ThinkingMenShouldIdeasCharacterPoliticalStrongSocialChanceCreativePathGreaterProgressHe ManCitizensEqualPrejudiceObstaclesConclusionHelpfulFlatsBroadsFrankHospitalityChances AreMenaceBenign Author:Richard M. Weaver
“On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.” WholeThreeSocialLossCreativeCivilizationMajorityUnityMinoritiesBreakdownWithdrawalCreative PowerMimesis Author:Arnold J. Toynbee