“There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.” SocialMoralCatholicSpeciesModernismTheological Author:Pope Pius XI
“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.” ThinkingMindFirstsHumansLittlesArtSelfPhilosophySocialNaturalPoorNovelStruggleRecordsEnvironmentStylePossibilityCreaturesSolutionsConsciousSpeciesComplexesObviousDrawingImprovementExperimentsInventionAriseInteractionAccurateSelf Conscious Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.” MenSocialProcessDogSpeciesSignificanceOrganismsFluidIntercourseAbsorbingCanine Book:An Olaf Stapledon Reader Source: An Olaf Stapledon Reader
“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
“One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.” SocialProcessStepsBehaviorSpeciesPatternsSavingRangeDietsThreatenedMatingSocial Behavior Author:Dian Fossey
“Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.” WorldHumansDoeSocialCrimeBearsOrganizationSpeciesWitnessGoodsAfflictionDistributionProstitutionHideousHuman SpeciesInfamySocial Organization Author:Flora Tristan
“The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.” IfsThinkingWorldIndividualSocialLosesCasesRichTreeSpecialEssentialsScientistMereSpeciesIndividualityForestsAssUniquenessEmbarrassingRichnessSolemnPathwaysSocial ScienceGeneralizationSocial SystemsIncomparableFaceless Author:Kenneth E. Boulding