"For three hundred years we have had our……" — John Grierson
"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 playground for exploration and discovery."
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16 Quotes by John Grierson
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We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
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Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is…
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Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes…
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens…
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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
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Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever…
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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into…
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My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist,…
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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing…
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The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where…
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having…
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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