Barbara Marx Hubbard Quotes
Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.
Quotes to Explore
-
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
-
Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
-
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
-
Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
-
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
-
When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
-
I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
-
Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
-
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
-
A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
-
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
-
I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
-
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
-
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
-
We live in a technical society.
-
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
-
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
-
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.
-
When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!
-
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
-
When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
-
Nature fits all her children with something to do,He who would write and can't write, can surely review.
-
Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.
