A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to ju...stice and to right for the conservation of its interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
WHEREAS: It is our conviction that had the women of the countries of Europe, with their deep instinct of motherhood and desire for... the conservation of life, possessed a voice in the councils of their governments, this deplorable war would never have been allowed to occur; therefore, be it RESOLVED: That the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in convention assembled, does hereby affirm the obligation of peace and good will toward all men and further demands the inclusion of women in the government of nations of which they are a part, whose citizens they bear and rear and whose peace their political liberty would help to secure and maintain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, as far as they may be within the jurisdiction... of the Federal Government, including the more important work of saving and restoring our forests and the great improvement of waterways, are all proper government functions which must involve large expenditure if properly performed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewo...ven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain... that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-centeredness and selfishness has [sic] become the farmer's way of life ... instead of neighborliness, conservation, and famil...ies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Newspapers had a different perceptual impact on the reader than the printed book. Unlike the linear development of a plot or an ar...gument in the book, the concurrent reporting of news from different parts of the world made newspapers a mosaic of unrelated events. Newspapers contracted time to the instantaneous and the sensational, expanded space to include anything from everywhere. The present became much more diverse and complex, no longer containable within a single chronological framework. And the reader had to provide the connection between the different news items.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether in the field of health, education or welfare, I have put my emphasis on preventive rather than curative programs and tried... to influence our elaborate, costly and ill- co-ordinated welfare organizations in that direction. Unfortunately the momentum of social work is still directed toward compensating the victims of our society for its injustices rather than eliminating those injustices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »