Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not only un-American and ungodly, but grows out of intolerance and ignorance, a poor basis for belief...
...rate under control." The catch in birth control, as Toynbee himself admitted, is that "the initiative is in the hands of the world's private citizens," and planners have so far been unable to break down what he regards as a combination of instinct, ignorance, custom and religious belief that keeps the "underprivileged" defiantly reproducing when planners wish they wouldn't. So far the only Asian nation that has succeeded in reducing its population growth has been Japan, and to do so, the Japanese resorted, to legalized abortion...
Logic, argues Russell, cannot provide a man with a set of ethical beliefs. Russell does not even claim to know why he himself believes in the virtue of free inquiry, though logic can tell him the implications of such a belief: "If, for example, it is held that one should act with honesty, then this does not depend on the size, shape or color of those with whom one happens to be dealing. In this sense, then, the ethical problem gives rise to the conception of the brotherhood of man. It is a view first stated explicitly in the ethical...
...taken massive government action and then business had improved." he says, "we might have convinced the people that this was the only way out of a recession. But by leaving it essentially alone, we established a basis for belief in the resiliency of the economy. In their economic decisions, people operate on the basis of belief-belief in what is going to happen. We must not impair their confidence in the future or in the capacity of their economic system to deal with most of the problems that will arise...
...complained that 83-year-old Chancellor Adenauer had taken to shaping foreign policy in secret. Others resented Adenauer's insistence that the alliance with France must be the cornerstone of West Germany's international relations. Many German businessmen and politicians no longer made any bones about their belief that De Gaulle was extracting from Bonn greater political and economic concessions than his friendship was worth-and were convinced that De Gaulle was really not interested in seeing Germany become a great power...