I Quotes
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“In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the decent and honorable code that makes us care for creatures who are entirely at our mercy. Especially within the last two hundred years, we've come to apply an industrial mind-set to the use of animals, too often viewing them as if they were nothing but articles of commerce and the raw material of science, agriculture, and wildlife management. Here, as in other pursuits, human ingenuity has a way of outrunning human conscience, and some things we do only because we can--forgetting to ask whether we should.”
Source: The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
“In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.”
Source: Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections
“In our day, we thought that the bards would sing of us for generations to come, but we did not believe it. But in fact Arthur now occupies a higher throne than he ever did when he was alive. The fragments of all our lives have been put together to form legend. Camelot has become the nursery of Britain: the glorious past that never was and always will be.”
“In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.”
“In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.”
“In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.”
“In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.”
Source: Records and Reflections: Selected from Her Writings During Half a Century, April 3rd, 1840 to April 3rd, 1890
“In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see in these words the meaning that the state would adopt the policy of folded arms, the Marxian revolutionary recognizes the duty of the state to lead a most resolute struggle against religion by means of ideological influences on the proletarian masses.”
“In our deeds we can structure our lives so that the simple things that we do everyday, from bathing to cooking, have resonance and ritual. -Ilsa Crawford”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“In our deep poverty, after I had gathered together a few things for sale, a sister who earns her living pay the labor of her hands for 82 pounds. This sister was convinced that believers in our Lord Jesus should act out His commandments; "Sell that, ye have, and give alms (Luke 12: 33; lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth (Matthew 6:19). Accordingly, she drew her money out of the bank and stocks, 250 pounds, and brought it to me at three different times for the benefit of the orphans, the Bible, missionary, and school funds, and the poor saints.
About two months ago she brought me 100 pounds more after she had sold some other possessions. The 82 pounds she brought today is from the sale of her last earthly possession. She never expressed the least regret for the step she took, but went on quietly laboring with her hands to earn her daily living.”
“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
Source: The Love Object: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien
“In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life
“In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.”
“In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10
“In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.”
“In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.”
“In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.”
“In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.”
“In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.”
“In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.”
Source: Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey
“In our design of business and economic systems, there's a lot to learn from mycorrhizae and fungi.”
“In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.”
“In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.”
“In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.”
“In our despair that justice is slow
we sit with heads bowed
wondering
how
even whether
we will ever be healed.
Perhaps it is a question
only the ravaged
the violated
seriously ask.
And is that not now
almost all of us?
But hope is on the way.
As usual Hope is a woman
herding her children
around her
all she retains of who
she was; as usual
except for her kids
she has lost almost everything.
Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.”
“In our digital world today, handwritten notes are an “old school” way to make people feel important. Email is easy and Facebook birthday messages are now the norm, however, taking that extra step makes your efforts extra special.
Whether it is a thank you note, birthday greeting, or a card of congratulations, taking the time to extend this personal consideration makes a person feel like you care. Be the surprise in someone’s day and make them feel important.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek a synthesis of ideas and values that have proven their viability.”
“In our domain we neither allow any Muslim to change his religion nor allow any other religion to propagate its faith.”
“In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.”
Source: Dreamtigers
“In our dreams, everything remains possible…and everything that remains possible is already alive in us.”
Source: Something Else: Words That Remember, Stories That Awaken
“In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.”
“In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.”
“In our dreams we are always young.”
Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
“In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.”
“In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.”
Source: Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
“In our dreams, we can't see anything that we haven't put it there!”
“In our dual world, it is not possible for just one side to disappear. When one pole disappears, the opposite pole also disappears, and the system maintained by the two poles collapses.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“In our dynamic age, the speed of motion is increasing”
“In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.”
“In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans
“In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.”
Source: On the Suffering of the World
“In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.”
“In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.”
“In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."”
“In our effort to be honest about our problems, it is not necessary that we cease to be mindful of our potential.”
Source: Freedom Without Permission: How to Live Free in a World That Isn't
“In our efforts to avoid pain, we inadvertently avoid the depths of our true selves. Embrace the pain because it leads to a deeper understanding of who you are beyond the shadows of suffering.”
Source: Death: Light of Life and the Shadow of Death
“In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.”
“In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.”