A Quotes
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“As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“As long as colonialism was allowed to reign and fester in Africa, it was going to be a source of tension, if not war, as was evidenced by World War I itself, which, among other things, featured Germany on one side of the barricades and Britain, which had come earlier to the table of colonial plunder, on the other.”
“As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works.”
“As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.”
“As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.”
“As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!”
“As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.”
“As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.”
“As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege”
Source: Deterring Democracy
“As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.”
“As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.”
“As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”
Source: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
“As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.”
“As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.”
Source: An Oration on the Gods
“As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone's happy.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“As long as everyone is playing for the scene or the movie, rather than themselves, then you're going to have something really good.”
“As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.”
“As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail.”
Source: Father-Daughter Incest
“As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.”
“As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.”
“As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.”
Source: The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
“As long as God is with me, I don’t need anything else. With my father looking after me from heaven, I wouldn’t be tired or exhausted, no matter what! As long as I’m with my beloved members, i can do anything! With ELF’s care on me, I can do everything”
“As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.”
“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power that corporations seek away from government! The only sure way to prevent the rich from buying unfair government influence is to stop allowing government to use physical force against peaceful people. Whenever government is allowed to favor one group over another, the rich will always win, since they can "buy" more favors, overtly or covertly, than the poor.”
“As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.”
“As long as growth and learning remains a prime goal, days of calm and comfort are bound to be paired with periods of overwhelming feelings.”
“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.”
“As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.”
“As long as he fought imaginary giants, Don Quixote was just play-acting. However once he actually kills someone, he will cling to his fantasies for all he is worth, because only they give meaning to his tragic misdeed. Paradoxically, the more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the more tenaciously we hold on to it, because we desperately want to give meaning to those sacrifices and to the suffering we have caused.”
Source: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough”
Source: Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
“As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.”
“As long as he is kind, that is all that matters.
I have known,’ said Miss Pettigrew, in my life a lot of good people, but few were ever kind.”
Source: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
“As long as he knew she was okay, he could endure anything.”
Source: Finally His Bride
“As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amusements but whose spiritual state is much the same...And while he thinks that, we do not have to contend with the explicit repentance of a definite, fully recognised, sin, but only with his vague, though uneasy, feeling that he hasn’t been doing very well lately. This dim uneasiness needs careful handling. If it gets too strong it may wake him up...if you suppress it entirely...we lose an element in the situation which can be turned to good account. If such a feeling is allowed to live, but not allowed to become irresistible and flower into real repentance, it has one invaluable tendency. It increases the patient’s reluctance to think about the Enemy. All humans at nearly all times have some such reluctance; but when thinking of Him involves facing and intensifying a whole vague cloud of half-conscious guilt, this reluctance is increased tenfold...In this state your patient will not omit, but he will increasingly dislike, his religious duties...He will want his prayers to be unreal, for he will dread nothing so much as effective contact with the Enemy.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amusements but whose spiritual state is much the same as it was six weeks ago. And while he thinks that, [he will not repent] of a definite, fully recognized, sin, ... only [vaguely and uneasily] feeling that he hasn't been doing very well lately... If such a feeling is allowed to live... it increases reluctance to think about [God]. All humans at nearly all times have some such reluctance; but when thinking of Him involves facing and intensifying a whole vague cloud of half-conscious guilt, this reluctance is increased tenfold. They hate every idea that suggests Him, just as men in financial embarrassment hate the very sight of a bankbook. In this state... {man] will increasingly dislike his religious duties. He will think about them as little as he feels he decently can beforehand, and forget them as soon as possible when they are over. He will want his prayers to be unreal, for he will dread nothing so much as effective contact with [his Heavenly Father]... Uneasiness and his reluctance to face it cut him off more and more from all real happiness...”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.”
Source: The Chance
“As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.”
“As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.”
“As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated.
If they make it that far.”
“As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him.”
“As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.”
“As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.”
“As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.”
Source: Race Matters
“As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.”
Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays
“As long as human beings are unconscious and dominated by selfish and illusory desires, there is no god who will force us to change. But as the history of revelation on earth testifies, guidance has come to all communities and nations. Through masters, saints and prophets, through sacred texts and oral tradition, humanity has been reminded and warned. Cosmic intelligence has continually been in communication with us; now the burden of responsibility rests on each human heart. (p. 164)”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”
Source: Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
“As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.”
Source: Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky
“As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.”
“As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.”