“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.” KnowsWorldYearsAgeCultureNatureBornCommunityLibertyStruggleGreaterSocietyDyingPossibilityDivineEvolutionEthicsHarmonyInstitutionsIndividualityOld AgeShiftingNonconformityRegenerationEnlightened Society Author:Dee Hock
“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.” PeopleDoeSelfMatterFormCultureIndividualForceBornCasesSocietyCivilizationMassOriginalsPossessionEnormousDelusionPlasticCoastEndowment Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.” PeopleIfsFearBornLosesPowerSocietyShareFeministRacistWhite SupremacySupremacyUnlearnAnti RacistWhite Power Author:Jane Elliott
“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.” IfsReasonHandsSpiritFeltBornCommunitySocietyPositionDutySucceedDemocraticExcuseChiefsPocketsNo Excuses Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.” ChildrenArtReligionBornMeditationSocietyAbsolutesMirrorsEducationalDustInnocenceCleaningEducational System Author:Rajneesh
“So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?” IfsThinkingWorldRealBornSeeingSocietyNormalNormalityFuturistDictating Author:Jacque Fresco
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” CountryWisdomFunnyPoliticsBornSocietyConvictionSuperiorsPatriotismNationalismPatrioticOther CountriesPatriotInternational RelationsIndependence DayScoundrelsGreat PatrioticIndependence Day PatrioticRepublic DayPatriotism And NationalismPatriotism In AmericaGood PatrioticHappy Independence DayUsa PatriotismPatriotism And FreedomModern Warfare 2Anti PatriotismIndian Patriotic Author:George Bernard Shaw
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” PeopleIfsLoveLifeInspirationalHumansHeartPersonsInspirationMotivationalReligionHatePeaceBornCommunityInspiringLearningSocietyHuman NaturePositiveTaughtColorPoliticianRacismHatredSkinsOppositesI HateBackgroundsDiscriminationHatedLgbtSouth AfricaHuman HeartLove HateApartheidHuman DignityLove And HateHate PeopleSkin ColorHate HimAnti RacismLearning To LoveLong WalksLong Walk To FreedomLove Or HateEducation And FreedomI Hate PeoplePeace HarmonyPeace And ToleranceAnti DiscriminationInspirational FreedomNo HateHated LoveHate ReligionHate GodDiscrimination And RacismEnding RacismNatural LoveAgainst RacismJustice And Love Author:Nelson Mandela
“We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.” BeliefBornSocietyPositiveFitCharmCivilizedCharmingSpontaneousSpontaneity Author:Judith Martin
“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.” PeopleYoungNationsProcessBornDemocracyCuttingSocietyYouthBirthCitizensLifetimeEvolveCitizenshipGood CitizenWorld CitizenLifelinesGood CitizenshipActive Citizenship Author:Kofi Annan
“One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.” IfsDoeProblemLyingRealizingBornAnswersSocietyAdvantageSimplicityPossessionSolveInner PeaceMinimalismFinding PeacePeace And HappinessAffluent Author:Tenzin Palmo
“Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” ArtEndsBornVirtueGenerationsSocietyPerfectionContractsPartnership Book:The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir Source: The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir
“Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.” MenWayHas BeensIdeasDifferentCountryAmericaCertainBeliefLanguageGivenNationsBornResultsBusinessTakenRightsSocietyEqualEthicsTraditionOne WayPatrioticNew ThingsOther CountriesTribesGatheringGeographyInevitabilityClansFervorExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Peggy Noonan
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” MenDoeSelfLife IsWaterBornLosesSocietyIdentityDevelopmentOceanIndependentDrop Of Water Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.” ChildrenKidsBornSocietyWise WordsGeniusDeep ThoughtPhysicistCrushed Author:Michio Kaku