For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a… — 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 the cooperative will matter. — 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
