Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: "The State of Individuals" (1976)
“We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.”
Source: The Power of Myth
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P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
Source: Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (2007), Ch. 2, p. 39
Context: The true fairytales … come straight out of myth; they are, as it were, minuscule reaffirmation of myths, or perhaps the myth made accessible to the local folky mind. One might say that fairytales are the myths falling into time and locality … is the same stuff, all the essentials are there, it is small, but perfect. Not minimized, not to be made digestible for children.
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
Source: Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (2007), Ch. 2, p. 39
Brian Cox (physicist) (1968) English physicist and former musician
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“The development of the individual to his highest potential for the benefit of the group.”
Ella Baker (1903–1986) African-American civil rights and human rights activist
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: documents, speeches and firsthand accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954–1990, ed. Clayborne Carson et al. (Penguin Books, 1991), p. 121.
“What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Address at Arlington National Cemetery (30 May 1925), in Foundations of the Republic https://archive.org/stream/foundationsofrep00unit/foundationsofrep00unit_djvu.txt (1926), Coolidge, Ayer Publishing, p. 228. <br class="br">1920s