“There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.” PeopleHumansHas BeensMatterWholeFormFoundCasesCreationActivityCapacityBasesMethodArtisticProductiveConventionsAestheticOriginalityHuman HistoryHuman ActivityInterchange Author:John Zachary Young
“I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.” PeopleWantPersonsBookWholeSocialFashionPhotographyEaseProductiveBoresFashion Photography Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.” MenWholeOrderSexProcessPayActivityEqualMassMen And WomenImportanceTransformationProductionsGenuineProductiveBroadsSocialistEqual Pay Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.” WayImportantWarWholeLastsAmericaTurnsInterestDecisionSpecialSecurityPolicyDegreesSummerIsraelDefinedProductiveFlawsMakersForeign PolicyHistoricTacticsPursuedIsraeliAssessmentSpecial InterestsLebanonNational InterestsReplicateDecision MakersLast Summer Author:Samantha Power
“If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.” IfsWorldWholeEarthSpaceOceanWhole WorldWelcomeSecureProductiveSuspectsElsewherePermacultureIfs And Author:Bill Mollison