“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.” PastTurnsLiteratureSocialCausesNaturalRaceProgressGenerationsEffectsExerciseIntellectualConsciousCapacityUnityStoresFedsSensibilityConnectingPast And PresentSocial Progress Author:George Henry Lewes
“The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.” AgePastLostSocialBreakAtheismSourceAncientAppearancePositive AtheismMythologyGoldenRevolutionaryParadiseFedsEngineersUtopiaLegendaryBlueprintsGolden Age Book:the god that failed Source: the god that failed
“Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.” ShouldWellsStillsSocialPerfectDemocracyShareHealthyFairsSocialismCommunismFedsHogFair ShareSocial Democracy Author:George Bernard Shaw
“But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.” PeopleSpiritualSocialRaceHalfStruggleEconomicCenturySpringSolutionsIdealsTraditionAspirationFedsSentimentsRootedConform Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.” BookRealGovernmentSocialTermInterestPayLibertySecurityBenefitsCurrentsLibertarianObligationFedsLibertarianismSocial SecurityPaymentTreasuryTreasury Bond Author:Laurence Kotlikoff