U Quotes
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“Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.”
“Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.”
Source: An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
“Unless we act first, the torture and exploitation on trees, Nature and common people by the humanity with the help of media is alarming signal for the extinction of the humanity itself.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.”
“Unless we all want to end up like our spiritual friend here…” Garryck said, gesturing with the point of his lance at the hole he’d left in the dead man’s body.”
Source: Gearpox
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.”
“Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“Unless we are able to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, the GDP and other facts and figures would be merely decorative and of little significance.”
“Unless we are able to commit to a permanent growing settlement [on Mars], then I don't think just going there with humans and coming back is worth doing. The expense of planning to come back is like the people who left Europe to come to America and then to turn around and go back to Europe, it really doesn't make any sense at all.”
“Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.”
Source: Collected Works
“Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.”
“Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to deal successfully with today's domestic and personal problems, not to mention those international issues on which our very lives depend.”
“Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can't disturb it. You can't hear things in the Spirit while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can't take a shade of fear into the presence of God.”
“Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.”
“Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.”
Source: Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
“Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.”
― Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire”
Source: From Fear to Faith: Realize God’s goodness in spite of adversity
“Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.”
Source: Young Men and Fire
“Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.”
“Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.”
“Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.”
“Unless we believe in the hero, what is there
To believe? Incisive what, the fellow
Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud.”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
“Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.”
“Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.”
“Unless we bring falsehood to rest, we will never rest.”
“Unless we can act collectively, there would be no way to defend ourselves, no way to define or enforce property rights. We couldn't curb congestion or pollution or build and maintain public infrastructure.”
“Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.”
“Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn’t worth much.”
Source: Life Betwixt: Essays on Allies in the Everyday and Shamanism Among
“Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.”
“Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.”
“Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.”
“Unless we can so enlarge our interests as to include the whole outer world, we remain like a garrison in the beleaguered fortress, knowing that the enemy prevents escape and that ultimate surrender is inevitable.”
Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.”
“Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.”
“Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.”
“Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Unless we come in full agreement with what the Kingdom of God is, says, and how it operates, we cannot possibly enjoy its fruit in our lives.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.”
“Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks... kick in one after another.”
“Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.”
“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”
“Unless we do experiments with compassion and nonviolence, it is very difficult to understand its value and transforming power.”
Source: Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.”
“Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.”
“Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law”
“Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.”