Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. III: Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being
“Only in an atmosphere of freedom can the creative genius of the human spirit find full expression.”
Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 135
1950s, Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Only in an atmosphere of freedom can the creative genius of the human spirit find full expression." by Walter Reuther?
Walter Reuther 25
Labor union leader 1907–1970Related quotes
Ansel Adams
(1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985)
Sadhguru
(1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
Source: Inspire Your Child Inspire the World: In the Presence of the Master
“Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.”
Ai Weiwei
(1957) Chinese concept artist
2010-, Life’s Work: Ai Weiwei, 2012
Václav Havel
(1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)
East of Eden (1952)
Context: Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning blows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.
Ai Weiwei
(1957) Chinese concept artist
Solway, Diane. “Enforced Disappearance.” W Magazine, November 2011.
2010-, 2011
Harlan F. Stone
(1872–1946) United States federal judge
Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 604 (1940).
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)