Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
Source: Metaphysics: Concept and Problems
Part One: 5. The Insane
History of Madness (1961)
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
Source: Metaphysics: Concept and Problems
“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
Sue Monk Kidd (1948) Novelist
Source: The Invention of Wings
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Harijan (28 July 1949) p. 219
1940s
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Veto Mesage Regarding the Bank of the United States http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ajveto01.asp (10 July 1832). <br class="br">1830s <br class="br">Context: It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Volume iii, p. 332
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), p. 126
“Consciousness spreads out its web, in the form of time, over reality.”
Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) German mathematician
...spannt aber dadurch auch das Bewußtsein seine Form, die Zeit, über die Wirklichkeit aus...
Introduction
Space—Time—Matter (1952)
György Lukács book History and Class Consciousness
Source: History and Class Consciousness (1968), p. 64