A Quotes
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“As long as the intrinsic nature of the Self (Swabhaav) has not arisen, has not been experienced, it is indeed the prakruti (the relative self) at play. After the experience of the intrinsic nature of the Self (Swabhaav), one only dwells in the Self.”
Source: Who am I?
“As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.”
“As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.”
Source: This Matter of Culture
“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.”
Source: MLK on
“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.”
Source: MLK on
“As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.”
Source: The First and Last Freedom
“As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.”
Source: Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self
“As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.”
“As long as the mind is unsubdued, there is always outside harm. Once the mind is subdued, once there is no anger in the mental continuum, there is no outside enemy. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.”
Source: The Door to Satisfaction: The Heart Advice of a Tibetan Buddhist Master
“As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'”
“As long as the National Socialist Movement is leading Germany-and that will be the case for the next few centuries, no matter how often our emigrants conjure up the opposite view- this opinion will not change.”
“As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.”
“As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.”
“As long as the oppressed class - in our case, therefore, the proletariat - is not yet ripe for its self-liberation, so long will it, in its majority, recognize the existing order of society as the only possible one and remain politically the tail of the capitalist class, its extreme left wing.”
“As long as the oppressor weighs the tears of the oppressed, justice will never have her way.”
Source: Love Lives Here: A Journey of Self-Love, Healing, and Renewal
“As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.”
“As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.”
“As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.”
“As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.”
“As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.”
“As long as the productivity of labor remains at a level where one man can only produce enough for his own subsistence, social division does not take place and any social differentiation within society is impossible. Under these conditions, all men are producers and they are all on the same economic level.
Every increase in the productivity of labor beyond this low point makes a small surplus possible, and once there is a surplus of products, once man’s two hands can produce more than is needed for his own subsistence, then the conditions have been set for a struggle over how this surplus will be shared.”
Source: Marxist Economic Theory: Vol II,
“As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.”
Source: On directing film
“As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel.”
“As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves.”
Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes
“As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under their policies the human race is being rapidly propelled toward its extinction.”
“As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.”
“As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.”
“As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.”
“As long as the sun does not set in your mind, darkness will be nothing but a weak shadow in your life!”
“As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.”
“As long as the sun’s shining, shit can’t be that bad.”
Source: Wait for You
“As long as the sun's shining, shit can't be that bad - Cam”
Source: Wait for You
“As long as the sun smiles above us our hopes will always blossom.”
“As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist”
“As long as the team is pulling together, I’m happy to be a part of it.”
“As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any consistency urge that other nations not be allowed to acquire theses weapons.”
“As long as the United States remains a democracy, I want to be in the ideological fight against illiberal nationalism and continue to make the case for why a return to internationalism, multilateralism, and support for democracy and human rights worldwide best serves American national interests.”
Source: Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder – The Former Ambassador's Bold Vision for Confronting Authoritarian Threats
“As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.”
“As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.”
“As long as the wetland looks pretty and also attracts ducks from time to time, it is regarded as a complete success. An attractive appearance is fine and is of considerable concern in urban developments.
It is the pretense that such wetlands also create rich habitats which is objectionable, when urban development is the primary cause of loss of diversity in a wide range of ecosystems around cities including wetlands.
The one ecologically positive thing that most created wetlands do a reasonable job of is water treatment, because the limited range of plants likely to survive the semi-toxic soils and waters of newly created wetlands are invariably colonisers that will also use up a wide range of nutrients.”
Source: Wetland Habitats [OP]: A Practical Guide to Restoration and Management
“As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.”
“As long as the white sheet is spotless, you keep it carefully. When a spot appears on it, you start using it brutally.
The ideas of morality or purity imposed on you by the outside world are like a dam. When it breaks, floods ensue. The only source of permanent purity is inside you.”
“As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.”
Source: Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius
“As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.”
“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.”
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom
“As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.”