John Grierson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.”

“In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.”

“My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.”

“The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.”

“We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.”

“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.”