“A does not equal A because of location. For example, location in time.”
Howard Bloom (1943) American publicist and author
When a Frog is a River? Aristotle Wrestles Heraclitus
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VII, The State And The Individual, p. 74 .
“A does not equal A because of location. For example, location in time.”
Howard Bloom (1943) American publicist and author
When a Frog is a River? Aristotle Wrestles Heraclitus
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 117.
1870s
Context: [My sixth principle is that] the foreign policy of England should always be inspired by the love of freedom. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order; the firmest foundations for the development of individual character; and the best provision for the happiness of the nation at large.
“In Hinduism, conscience, reason, and independent thinking have no scope for development.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…
Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)
“Where the works gives scope for individuality, one sees a blossoming of self respect”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1946-1949
Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) Prime Minister of India
In, p. 36.
Gulzarilal Nanda: A Life in the Service of the People
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), p. 193
“Work-democracy adds a decisive piece of knowledge to the scope of ideas related to freedom.”
Wilhelm Reich book The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Section 1 : Give Responsibility to Vitally Necessary Work!
Variant translation: Work democracy introduces into liberal thinking a decisive new insight: the working masses who carry the burden of social existence are not conscious of their social responsibility. Nor are they — as the result of thousands of years of suppression of rational thinking, of the natural love function and of the scientific comprehension of living functioning — capable of the responsibility for their own freedom. Another insight contributed by work democracy is the finding that politics is in itself and of necessity unscientific: it is an expression of human helplessness, impoverishment and suppression.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Ch. 10 : Work Democracy
Context: Work-democracy adds a decisive piece of knowledge to the scope of ideas related to freedom. The masses of people who work and bear the burden of social existence on their shoulders neither are conscious of their social responsibility nor are they capable of assuming the responsibility for their own freedom. This is the result of the century-long suppression of rational thinking, the natural functions of love, and scientific comprehension of the living. Everything related to the emotional plague in social life can be traced back to this incapacity and lack of consciousness. It is work-democracy's contention that, by its very nature, politics is and has to be unscientific, i. e., that it is an expression of human helplessness, poverty, and suppression.
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Time and Individuality (1940)
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics
Science and the Common Understanding (1954); based on 1953 Reith lectures.