“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."” WorldHumansMeanActionDesireSocialCommunityNaturalHuman BeingsResponsibilityFocusMoralitySucceedSpeechMeaningfulSustainabilityInitialsNatural WorldPersonal ExperiencesAutonomousTerrainSocial Action Author:Vaclav Havel
“The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.” NeedsSocialJusticeLibertySpeechSocial JusticeDimensionsFreedom Of SpeechEquityHumaneContinuum Author:Alan Lomax
“Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.” ThinkingMenHumansMadeLife IsLyingSocialKnowingProductsSpeechHuman LifePhysiological Book:Mist: A Tragicomic Novel Source: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel
“Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.” RealityFormSocialSpeechWorshipPressesGuaranteesPersistAssemblySlippingFreedom Of The PressSlipping Away Author:Marshall Field
“As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.” WorldStatesOrderSocialUnderstandingEventsSpeechRelationAffairOneselfAccessMediumsReachingManifestSpeakersPrivilegedSubjectiveSocial OrderInterpersonal Author:Jurgen Habermas
“There should be music in the child's environment, just as there does exist in the child's environment spoken speech. In the social environment the child should be considered and music should be provided.” ShouldChildrenDoeSocialEnvironmentSpeechSocial Environment Author:Maria Montessori
“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 nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.” MeanReasonWholeProblemNationsSocialJusticeTeachLimitsSpeechSolutionsRelationDiscussionWelfareRelyFree SpeechIndispensableAdjustmentSolution To A ProblemRely UponSocial WelfareSocial Relations Author:Stanley Forman Reed