Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
on the Diane Rehm Show.
Post-Presidency
“An arrogant independence to create is my only motivation.”
Selden Rodman, Conversations With Artists, 1957
1950s
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American visual artist (1906-1965) 1906–1965Related quotes
“Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.”
Craig Groeschel (1967) American priest
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)
Frederick Herzberg (1923–2000) American psychologist
Frederick Herzberg, quoted in: Marci Segal (2003), Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments and Creativity. p. 12
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 38
Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation (1835)
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Republican News http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/bios/sands.html, (16 December 1978) <br class="br">Other writings
“It tends on the contrary, to create a completely independent technical morality.”
Jacques Ellul book The Technological Society
Source: The Technological Society (1954), p. 97
Context: A principal characteristic of technique … is its refusal to tolerate moral judgments. It is absolutely independent of them and eliminates them from its domain. Technique never observes the distinction between moral and immoral use. It tends on the contrary, to create a completely independent technical morality.
Here, then, is one of the elements of weakness of this point of view. It does not perceive technique's rigorous autonomy with respect to morals; it does not see that the infusion of some more or less vague sentiment of human welfare cannot alter it. Not even the moral conversion of the technicians could make a difference. At best, they would cease to be good technicians. This attitude supposes further that technique evolves with some end in view, and that this end is human good. Technique is totally irrelevant to this notion and pursues no end, professed or unprofessed.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Ordered Liberty and World Peace (1924)
Karl Marx book The German Ideology
Vol. I, Part 4.
The German Ideology (1845/46)
Context: Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals. Its organisation is, therefore, essentially economic, the material production of the conditions of this unity; it turns existing conditions into conditions of unity. The reality, which communism is creating, is precisely the true basis for rendering it impossible that anything should exist independently of individuals, insofar as reality is only a product of the preceding intercourse of individuals themselves.
