Christopher Caudwell (1907–1937) British Marxist literary critic, journalist and writer
Further Studies in a Dying Culture (1949), Chapter IV: Consciousness: A Study in Bourgeois Psychology
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
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Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
Power of the Master Mind
Source: Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 150.
“The domineering habit develops side by side with helplessness.”
Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
Source: The Montessori Method (1912), Ch. 5 : Discipline, p. 100.
Context: The peril of servilism and dependence lies not only in that "useless consuming of life," which leads to helplessness, but in the development of individual traits which indicate all too plainly a regrettable perversion and degeneration of the normal man. I refer to the domineering and tyrannical behaviour with examples of which we are all only too familiar. The domineering habit develops side by side with helplessness. It is the outward sign of the state of feeling of him who conquers through the work of others. Thus it often happens that the master is a tyrant toward his servant. It is the spirit of the task-master toward the slave.
Franz Boas (1858–1942) German-American anthropologist
Source: Race and Democratic Society (1945), Chapter 2.
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Under section header: The Enterprise as Society's Mirror
1930s- 1950s, The New Society (1950)
Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Foreward, to "Memorial issue for Robert H. Jackson", 55 Columbia Law Review (April, 1955) p. 436; quoted by United States Senator Howell Heflin during the confirmation debate for Justice David Souter, on September 24, 1990, S13540.
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“The world itself is now dominated by a new spirit.”
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Presidency (1977–1981), Inaugural Address (1977)
Context: The world itself is now dominated by a new spirit. Peoples more numerous and more politically aware are craving and now demanding their place in the sun – not just for the benefit of their own physical condition, but for basic human rights.
The passion for freedom is on the rise. Tapping this new spirit, there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for America to undertake on this day of a new beginning than to help shape a just and peaceful world that is truly humane.
We are a strong nation, and we will maintain strength so sufficient that it need not be proven in combat – a quiet strength based not merely on the size of an arsenal, but on the nobility of ideas.
We will be ever vigilant and never vulnerable, and we will fight our wars against poverty, ignorance, and injustice – for those are the enemies against which our forces can be honorably marshaled.
We are a purely idealistic Nation, but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.