John Grierson
John Grierson
John Griersonwas a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert Flaherty's Moana...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth26 April 1898
philosophy school pursuit-of-happiness
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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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.
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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.
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My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.
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The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
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The degree of fresh and dynamic and progressive attitudes may be measured in terms of lines and masses as well as the choice of subject matter.
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
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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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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 vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
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Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
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Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.