“In a free system any large, popular, revolutionary movement should be able to bring about its ends by such a voluntary process. As more and more people see how it works more and more will wish to participate in or support it. And so it will grow, without being necessary to force everyone or a majority or anyone into the pattern.” PeopleShouldEndsAbleForceWishGrowsProcessSupportMovementMajorityPatternsRevolutionary Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.” BelieveHas BeensMadeGivenNationsWishChanceMillionsModelsWinePatternsChiefsAssimilation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.” WorldLittlesWishAdviceJudgingFlowerGardenWindowPlantPatternsBoxesDo Not Judge Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".” MayWishJudgingEvidencePressurePatternsExpertsTouchingUsefulness Book:The Good Guy Source: The Good Guy
“Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes, in spite of the dark urges and rages which mark the beginning of existence. Hope is the ontogenetic basis of faith, and is nourished by the adult faith which pervades patterns of care.” CareBeliefWishDarkExistenceAdultsBasesMarkEndurePatternsRageSpiteUrgesFervent Book:Insight and Responsibility Source: Insight and Responsibility