A Quotes
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“As long as our peace and joy are dependent on our feelings, we will only ever experience the shallow thrill of circumstantial peace and joy.”
Source: From Lost to Found: Giving Up What You Think You Want for What Will Set You Free
“As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.”
Source: Report to Greco
“As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.”
“As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness
“As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.”
“As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.”
“As long as people and institutions are allowed to profit from land at the expense of other people, we're enabling a system that incentivizes the destruction of our own habitat. This happens in three ways:
First, since human beings are allowed to profit not only from their goods and services but also from nature, we encourage the pillaging of nature.
Second, because our ability to profit from land at the expense of our communities is firmly entrenched in our economic system, and as a result existing land is priced far above its actual value, the cost of living is significantly higher than it should be. This forces human beings to extend themselves and their economic activities far beyond levels actually necessary to support their ongoing existence.
Third, our current model of land ownership encourages a sprawl of human civilization as populations seek out land that's still available at a lesser cost.
In the areas where rainforest destruction is epidemic, wealth inequality and land ownership rates are particularly disproportionate; millions of acres of prime farmland are owned by a few, while the many are forced to slash and burn large areas of rainforest just to make a living by other means.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“As long as people are alive and breathing, they will have needs that need fulfilling. And therefore there will always be business opportunities there.”
“As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”
“As long as people are listening that's all that matters.”
“As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.”
“As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl.”
“As long as people are talking instead of fighting, nobody loses very much blood—unless he happens to bite his tongue.”
Source: Crystal Gorge
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
“As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.”
Source: Bushido: The Way of the Samurai
“As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.”
“As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.”
Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation
“As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?”
“As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.”
“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”
“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”
“As long as political movements exercise a fatal attraction for those who seek to drown the sense of personal failure in collective action - as if collective action somehow precluded rigorous attention to the quality of personal life - political movements will have little to say about the personal dimension of social crisis.”
Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
“As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1931-1932
“As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”
“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.”
“As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.”
Source: The Church: The Gospel Made Visible
“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary. It becomes dangerous, on the other hand, when, instead of awakening us to the personal life of the mind, reading tends to take its place, when the truth no longer appears to us as an ideal which we can realize only by the intimate progress of our own thought and the efforts of our heart, but as something material, deposited between the leaves of books like a honey fully prepared by others and which we need only take the trouble to reach down from the shelves of libraries and then sample passively in a perfect repose of mind and body.”
“As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on need, rather than just across the board, I really think that we're doomed to this deadlock.”
“As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.”
Source: The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!”
Source: Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book
“As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.”
Source: Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President
“As long as she doesn't turn too smart for men
For the stupid ones, she will, Madame. But who wants them anyway? A stupid man is every woman's' downfall.”
Source: The Little Paris Bookshop
“As long as she is near or within his power to reach, he will be drawn to her, leaving less of him for others and that's why she had to leave. She knew, despite her own great desire, that there are consequences and responsibilities that are more important and life-altering than personal feelings.”
“As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.”
“As long as she lived Stephen never forgot her first impressions of the bar known as Alec's—that meeting-place of the most miserable of all those who comprised the miserable army. That merciless, drug-dealing, death-dealing haunt to which flocked the battered remnants of men whom their fellow-men had at last stamped under; who, despised of the world, must despise themselves beyond all hope, it seemed, of salvation. There they sat, closely herded together at the tables, creatures shabby yet tawdry, timid yet defiant—and their eyes, Stephen never forgot their eyes, those haunted, tormented eyes of the invert.
Of all ages, all degrees of despondency, all grades of mental and physical ill-being, they must yet laugh shrilly from time to time, must yet tap their feet to the rhythm of music, must yet dance together in response to the band—and that dance seemed the Dance of Death to Stephen. On more than one hand was a large, ornate ring, on more than one wrist a conspicuous bracelet; they wore jewellery that might only be worn by these men when they thus gathered together. At Alec's they could dare to give way to such tastes—what was left of themselves they became at Alec's.
Bereft of all social dignity, of all social charts contrived for man's guidance, of the fellowship that by right divine should belong to each breathing, living creature; abhorred, spat upon, from their earliest days the prey to a ceaseless persecution, they were now even lower than their enemies knew, and more hopeless than the veriest dregs of creation. For since all that to many of them had seemed fine, a fine selfless and at times even noble emotion, had been covered with shame, called unholy and vile, so gradually they themselves had sunk down to the level upon which the world placed their emotions. And looking with abhorrence upon these men, drink-sodden, doped as were only too many, Stephen yet felt that some terrifying thing stalked abroad in that unhappy room at Alec's; terrifying because if there were a God His anger must rise at such vast injustice. More pitiful even than her lot was theirs, and because of them mighty should be the world's reckoning.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“As long as she persisted in her belief that bafflement justified her actions, she felt confident no one would contradict her.”
Source: We Shadows
“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“As long as she wants me, I’m here.”
Source: Eclipse
“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”
“As long as she writes little notes, nobody objects to a woman writing.”
Source: Orlando
“As long as society continues to regard views that contradict the majority not as expressions of reality but merely as “different perspectives,” it will not mature.”
“As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don't put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a "no" into a "maybe" into a "yes." If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the "yes" turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson.”
Source: Does feminism discriminate against men?
“As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.”
Source: The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
“As long as some suffer
The River Flows Forever
As long as there is pain
The River Flows Forever
As strong as a smile can be
The River will Flow Forever”
Source: The Rose that Grew from Concrete
“As long as somebody is guaranteed a certain number of sales you know you're gonna keep seeing these vanity projects. I mean they have a place, they serve a function they can bring people into comics.”
“As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery”
“As long as someone gets hurt in the slightest, on your account; its effect will fall upon you. So beware. If the other person keeps “disadjusting” and you keep “adjusting”, then you will cross this worldly life. “Fault is of the sufferer” – if one is able to understand only this much, then not a single clash will remain in the home.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.”