I Quotes
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“In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art.”
Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular
“In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“In place of my record stood a God whom I had mocked, ridiculed, and despised, a God whom I had ignored and considered myself to be above, independent of, and smarter than. Against all logic, He chose to set an ungrateful and condemned man free... again!”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“In place of offering just advice and building hope, offer actual help and build trust.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him - totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.”
“In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.”
Source: Experimental researches in Chemistry and Physics ... Reprinted from the Philosophical Transactions of 1821-1857; the Journal of the Royal Institution ... and other publications
“In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.”
Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State
“In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed to that of science, of culture. With Christianity man lost the capability of conceiving himself as a part of Nature.”
Source: Essence of Christianity
“In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.”
“In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own”
“In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.”
“In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.”
“In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: "Here I am."”
“In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.”
“In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.”
Source: Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell
“In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.”
Source: Three plays
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to feed your family, and sometimes even your own liberty, the idea of the mutually supportive poor community is demolished. The poor blame one another for the choices of governments and markets, and we who are not poor are ready to blame the poor just as harshly.”
Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.”
“In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.”
Source: The Stakes of Diplomacy
“In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”
“In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.”
Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville
“In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“In plain English, you need to wrestle the doubts and accusations that it’s all just bullshit. And, needless to say, the majority of the work of the triple-H population is undeniably so. The reason that it’s so valuable to society is just that some of it isn’t bullshit and even a small percentage of genuine innovations of software, culture or lifestyle can have a huge impact. Still, you never quite know if you are the bullshitter or the hero, or if you are being sold utter bullshit.”
Source: The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One
“In plain language, every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him. On the stage, one man is a prince, another a minister, a third a servant or a soldier or a general, and so on, — mere external differences: the inner reality, the kernel of all these appearances is the same — a poor player, with all the anxieties of his lot. In life it is just the same. Differences of rank and wealth give every man his part to play, but this by no means implies a difference of inward happiness and pleasure; here, too, there is the same being in all — a poor mortal, with his hardships and troubles.”
Source: The Wisdom of Life
“In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.”
“In Plain Sight by Stewart Stafford
How can I show the real me?
My voice breaking as I speak,
Parched hope's cracked lips,
Delphic in this solitary chic.
Vitriol cannot reach my shore,
The purge reveals little to hide,
Or does rage fester within me?
A cannibal cheerleader inside.
No father around guiding me,
Burnt by mother's acid divide,
Cataracts of persona non grata,
A transient hat tipped in a lie.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.”
“In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'”
“In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.”
“In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.”
“In plain words, you’ve got to make up your mind to study whatever you undertake, and concentrate your mind on it, and really work at it. This isn’t wisdom. Any damned fool in the world knows it’s true, whether it’s a question of raising horses or writing plays. You simply have to face the prospect of starting at the bottom and spending years learning how to do it.”
“In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.”
“In planetary terms, we're all downstream.”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“In planning an attack, persons have various roles.”
“In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.”
“In planting trees, aim to perpetuate an ecosystem, not a plantation.”
Source: Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
“In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's remarkable is that she actually brings off this tour de force with both madcap brilliance and commanding authority.”
“In Plato’s classic book, Republic, he suggests there are three classes of people in society, and the state should educate those classes differently. They assign standard timeframes to those education periods. Why on Earth would you treat all your students on the same time frame?”
Source: sciVive
“In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.”
“In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.”
“In play, rule becomes affect”
“In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.”
“In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.”
“In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.”
“In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.”
“In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably come across something that will give you a key as to structure. I think the process of writing a play is working back and forth between the moment and the whole. The moment and the whole, the fluidity of the dialogue and the necessity of a strict construction. Letting one predominate for a while and coming back and fixing it so that eventually what you do, like a pastry chef, is frost your mistakes, if you can.”
“In pleasure we only feel the music, in pain we also feel the lyrics.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.”
“In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!”