“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.” ThinkingHumansWarEnoughProcessEffortRaceBreakDemocracyProgressSocietyRevolutionTownsDrivenAwakeningMinoritiesNow And ThenReformationHaltBarbariansBreak ThroughFrench RevolutionHuman ProgressHorde Author:H. L. Mencken
“In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.” ReasonFormProcessCommunityResponsibilitySocietyEnlightenmentStriveDrivenOnenessMysticalTaking Responsibility Author:Andrew Cohen
“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” ImportantGovernmentProcessWealthPoorMoneyPowerEconomySocietyEconomicCitizensEconomicsProsperityContinuingBankingInflationCivil SocietyEconomic FreedomDistribution Of WealthCentral BankingEconomic ReformsHyperinflationContinuing On Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” MenInspirationalWholeLawProcessExistenceLibertyProgressSocietyEconomicCivilizationSettingSettingsPrivacyFierceSavagesTribesFountainheadProgress Of Society Author:Ayn Rand
“Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a chance to fully participate in society and the political process.” MeanDoeCareRunningPoliticalProcessFreedomChanceLibertyGroupsSocietySpecialMajorityActiveMinoritiesAllowingPromoting Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process” InspirationalMeanWarPeaceProcessCompassionViolenceSocietyConflictEmpathyCapacitySympathyAnti WarMathematicianNever Ending Author:Johan Galtung
“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
“The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it” WorldRealCoursesForceProcessPrinciplesDemocracySocietyExampleGoes OnDemocraticIncludingEnormousReal WorldDistributionMisleadExcludedAmerican SocietyDemocratic ProcessDistribution Of Power Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's important to recognize that expanding the circle of opportunity and increasing the democratic potential of our own society, as well as those across the world, is a continuing process of inclusion.” WorldWellsImportantOpportunityProcessSocietyDemocraticCirclesInclusionContinuingExpanding Author:Hillary Clinton
“Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to every individual - communist or Catholic, Jaina or Jew, it does not matter. I am not talking about any particular conditioning that is wrong; I am saying conditioning AS SUCH is wrong.” MindMeanDoeMatterStatesIndividualProcessTalkingMeditationSocietyParticularGoes OnCatholicJewHarmCommunistConditioningNot TalkingUndoing Author:Rajneesh
“We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.” FirstsCultureFunProcessSocietyStupidBecomingCreatingDeserveFirst TimeIdealsSurfaceInsaneIdiotInsanityNormCoarseBeneath The Surface Author:Carl Bernstein
“The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its course—it no longer serves the needs of men or women and in its inextricable linkage to militarism, hierarchy, and racism it threatens the very existence of life on earth. What will come after, what kind of structure will be the foundation for alternate forms of social organization we cannot yet know. We are living in an age of unprecedented transformation. We are in the process of becoming.” KnowsMenLifeNeedsKindEndsSeemsRunningAgeEarthFormCoursesSocialProcessExistenceSocietyBecomingRacismMen And WomenOrganizationTransformationFoundationStructurePatriarchyThreateningConstructsHistoricHierarchyUnprecedentedMilitarismPatriarchal SocietyAnti RacistSocial OrganizationSystemic ChangeLinkagesExistence Of Life Author:Gerda Lerner
“In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.” PeopleStatesHelpingProcessJusticeSocietyCommandUtilityCivil SocietyInterdiction Author:Anthony de Jasay