O Quotes
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“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”
Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
“Our defeats teach us much more than our victories ever would!” ― Avijeet Das
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To succeed we need committment, discipline, dedication, and determination. And if you can amalgamate all of the above qualities with your passion and energy then no one can stop you from achieving the uncommon!”
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.”
Source: Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
“Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.”
Source: Now, Discover Your Strengths
“Our definition of an atheist as someone who denies perfection has an immediate corollary; he is also someone who denies meaning. If you think about it, meaning is entirely invested in perfection. We expect a perfect being to know the meaning of existence, and be capable of telling us. We expect a perfect evolutionary process to culminate with we ourselves being perfect and knowing everything. Our pursuit of perfection/God is the meaning of life. To be an atheist
is to reject perfection, hence reject meaning. That’s why we brand all atheists as nihilists. They don’t believe in anything. They don’t believe in meaning. And that makes them no different from machines. They are not living beings, or they refuse to be living beings. They are unquestionably high on the autistic spectrum, and they see themselves and the universe as machines rather than living, evolving organisms, getting more and more perfect.”
Source: The Sam Harris Delusion
“Our definition of queer is that which fundamentally transforms our state of being and the possibilities for life. That which is queer is that which does not reproduce the status quo.”
Source: Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
“Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.”
Source: An Anthology
“Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.”
“Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.”
Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...
“Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.”
“Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.”
Source: Building A Character
“Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.”
“Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.”
“Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.”
“Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process.”
Source: They Called Us Enemy
“Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.”
“Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.”
“Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.”
“Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.”
“Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“Our democracy needs a dress code.”
“Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.”
“Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.”
“Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.”
“Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.”
“Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.”
“Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.”
“Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.”
“Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.”
“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than on kinship and rents. This belief and this hope play a very crucial role in modern society, for a simple reason: in a democracy, the professed equality of rights of all citizens contrasts sharply with the very real inequality of living conditions, and in order to overcome this contradiction it is vital to make sure that social inequalities derive from rational and universal principles rather than arbitrary contingencies. Inequalities must therefore be just and useful to all, at least in the realm of discourse and as far as possible in reality as well.”
Source: Capital in the Twenty First Century
“Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.”
“Our demographic dividend is our strength. The youth have what it takes to engage with the latest technology.”
“Our demographic dividend must get the digital strength.”
“Our demons are friends,”
Source: A Banquet Of Crumbs
“Our demons exist only as long as they can feed on our fear and pain.”
“Our denial of our weakness is as profitable to our opponents as our unawareness of our strength.”
“Our dependence on culture means that our minds need to be open to others, so that we can learn from them.”
Source: Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
“Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.”
“Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.”
“Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.”
“Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.”
“Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.”
Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
“Our description of what we are seeing ought to be begun with the word 'apparently'.”
“Our design consultants will guide you in making the right decision by costing out your options of extending or to Knock down and rebuild, as well as assess your home to have the best possible outcome.”
“Our design is beautiful and mysterious, so we are.”
Source: Poetry book Alone in a Boat
“Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.”
Source: Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
“Our desire for alcohol is not an evolutionary mistake. There are good reasons for why we get drunk.”
Source: Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
“Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.”