"Some of us learned in a school of……" — John Grierson
"Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit."
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John Grierson
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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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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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The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
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More Aberration Quotes
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
— Francis Bacon
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under…
— Ilka Chase
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
— Jeff Cooper
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Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection…
— Shadia Drury
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk…
— Lester R. Brown
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these…
— John Astin
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a…
— Michel Foucault
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
— Emile M. Cioran
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.…
— Bertrand Russell
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