Reconstruction Quotes - Page 4

• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Mean

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

  Olivier Martinez

  Thinking, People, Genius

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• I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.

  Taryn Manning

  Brother, My Brother, Workers

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• Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, Trying, Might

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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• The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

  John Podhoretz

  Zero, Real, Mosques

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• I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

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• Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Reality, Men, Hands

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• My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, War, Struggle

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• Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

  Evita Peron

  Lying, Workers, Nations

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• I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

  Ernie Harwell

  Jobs, Workers, Remembered

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

  Gloria Steinem

  Social Values, Racism, Workers

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.374, Open Road Media

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• More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.

  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

  Military, Development, Levels

  Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.

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• In general, in all my films, I choose to create a certain mistrust, rather than claiming that what I'm showing onscreen is an accurate reproduction of reality. I want people to question what they are seeing onscreen. In the same way as I used the narrator, I also used black and white, because it creates a distance toward what's being seen. I see the film as an artifact rather than a reliable reconstruction of a reality that we cannot know.

  Michael Haneke

  Distance, Black And White, Reality

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The important thing is that the worst is over, ... Now comes the reconstruction.

  Vicente Fox

  Important, Worst, Important Things

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• I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Thinking, Names, Mind

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• I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Mean, Law, Giving

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• Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

  William Beveridge

  Ignorance, Progress, Giants

  "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 8), November 1942.

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• I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Children, Book, Writing

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• We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Racism, African American, Black

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Two, Empowering, Community

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Race, Government

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• Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction.

  Ari Fleischer

  Mean, Iraq, People

  "Promises, promises: the true cost of freedom for the people". www.independent.co.uk. June 26, 2004.

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• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Order, History, Historical

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• Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Science, Judgement

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