“People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence”

Lessing

Lessing - “People who lack economic and social power...” 1

Similar quotes

“If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.”

Fulton J. Sheen
Read more

“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.”

Elizabeth Goudge
Read more

“So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.”

Elizabeth Goudge
Read more

“The social phenomenon of economic growth is, thanks to the principle of the conservation of matter, nothing other than the physical phenomenon of increasing resource depletion.”

Craig Dilworth
Read more

“A love-based psychology views social prejudice as impacting people's well-being, and the promotion of social justice as an important psychological intervention.”

David Bedrick
Read more