“It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.” FactsUseSocialTechnologyImagineGuidesRationalDesirableSocial LifeUse Of Technology Author:Carrie Snow
“Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.” PeopleThinkingWayMightFilmForceSocialAudienceInfluenceApproachExposedFeedingDesirableCommentaryInfluencing PeopleSoapbox Author:Walter Koenig
“With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.” IfsSocialOpinionTakenPaperAdvantageRootsRegardAimCorruptionWideImprovementExcessDesirableBankingPublic OpinionEmissionsTransactionsSuppressionToo DeepPartiality Author:James Madison
“Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.” PeopleStillsImportantStatesWholeGovernmentUsedSocialClassTakenModernMovementAuthorityOrganizationAimIgnorantConfusionFactorsGreekDisorderThinkerAnarchyWarfareDesirableAdoptedAdversariesAnarchism Author:Errico Malatesta
“My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .” SeemsGovernmentCoursesSocialSidesCommunismDesirableSocial ChangeAnarchismAnarchistMy Sympathy Book:Letters of Aldous Huxley Source: Letters of Aldous Huxley
“Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place.” IfsWorldBelieveYoungSocialThis WorldPeriodsElementsIntellectualProgramSocialismTendenciesAppealsLiberalismStableMysticalBetter PlaceDesirableConservatismDisillusionmentPropensityNationalisticSocial Programs Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing them altogether. Neither is desirable. Without emotion, much social interaction loses its meaning, or changes for the worse.” TryingEndsHappensSocialLosesEmotionLosingHotInteractionDesirableSocial InteractionCool Down Author:Julian Baggini
“They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.” PeopleIfsMenShouldBelieveHumansTwoStatesReasonActionIndividualSocialDifferencesHuman BeingsProgressMen And WomenInstrumentsStriveDeterminedRationalOrganizeDesirableParadigmPredictableTransitorySocial ProgressIndividual Differences Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.” MenMaySoulHumanityIndividualSocialGoalJusticeDealsMoralSocial JusticeMereAgentsPhrasesDefiniteDesirableAnthropologySoothingSnaresIndividual LifeSyrupGullsMagnanimous Author:George Amos Dorsey