My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. — John Grierson Copy Share Image
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
