“When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.” FirstsLongDoePoliticalActorsFatherSocialActingResponsibilityTaughtLong TimeIntellectualConscienceProfessionAccepted Author:Christopher Reeve
“The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.” MindHas BeensStatesPoliticalPurposeForceSocialTheoryHabitProveTaxesDoctorsClubsDuesSpheresRevenueLiving OnAnalogiesSocial ScienceHabits Of Mind Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter
“As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.” FactsPoliticalOrderSocialSexDifferencesEconomicConceptsConcernedFemaleOrganizationMalesEqualityEthicalSocial Organization Author:Alice S Rossi
“Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.” MayPoliticalSocialNaturalResultsIntellectualSlavery Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.” MenNeedsLongMadeCountryFactsPoliticalEvilLostSocialLossMoralTechnologyRevolutionMereStrangerStupidityDisasterFrustrationCapitalistDeclineSocialistCrushedUsefulnessPolitical Revolution Book:Les Belles Images Source: Les Belles Images
“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
“As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.” HomePoliticalSocialResultsSunBearsHolyPromiseRisingWomens RightsAdvancementEmancipationSuffrageCrimsonWoman SuffrageSaffron Author:Frances Harper
“The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or ethnic, and the psychic, nature of human beings -- treat not of human things but mere things, things that make up the physical, or circumstantial, content of human life but are not of the stuff of humanity, have not the human essence in them.” HumansPoliticalHumanitySocialStuffHuman BeingsEssenceTreatsMereHuman LifePsychics Author:Laura Riding
“The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social life that cannot be provided by the self-interest of economic enterprise or required by the mandate of political institutions.” GivingSelfFormPoliticalPurposeSocialInterestChristianityDemocracyEconomicHigherTraditionInstitutionsEnterprisePhilanthropySelf InterestSocial LifeMandatesHigher EducationPhilanthropicPolitical Institutions Author:Robert L. Payton