U Quotes
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“Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.”
“Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.”
“Ultimately, the witch craze was not the result of just one single factor. Rather, it was a conglomeration of influences that worked together over the span of hundreds of years to shape early modern Europe into the ideal environment for a continent-wide witch hunt: misogyny, patriarchy, religious tyranny, scapegoating, land disputes, the rise of capitalism, shifting views about magic, political propaganda, and an established history of persecution and violence.”
Source: Heal the Witch Wound: Reclaim Your Magic and Step Into Your Power
“Ultimately the work has to command the podium. - David J. Schow”
Source: The Carnival and Other Stories
“Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.”
“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life.
One is that of Buddha and Jesus, which stresses the feminine virtues, considers all men to be equally precious, resists evil only by returning good, identifies virtue with love, and inclines in politics to unlimited democracy.
Another is the ethic of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, which stresses the masculine virtues, accepts the inequality of men, relishes the risks of combat and conquest and rule, identifies virtue with power, and exalts an hereditary aristocracy.
A third, the ethic of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, denies the universal applicability of either the feminine or the masculine virtues; considers that only the informed and mature mind can judge, according to diverse circumstance, when love should rule, and when power; identifies virtue, therefore, with intelligence; and advocates a varying mixture of aristocracy and democracy in government.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Ultimately, there are so many things that you can’t control, but turn your awareness to what you can control. There is so much power in recognizing your thoughts, your words, and your actions. That connection will allow you to move purposefully, and less chaotically, through life.”
Source: Rest & Return: Weekly Reminders to Pause, Reflect, and Just Be
“Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.”
“Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.”
“Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for.”
“Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.”
“Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.”
Source: An Essay on Typography
“Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.”
Source: Who is Man?
“Ultimately, there is no right way to do the wrong thing and exploiting and killing animals, and causing them pain and suffering when we don’t have to, is absolutely wrong.”
Source: This is Vegan Propaganda
“Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.”
“Ultimately, there is no way that laws or institutions can prevent a democracy from becoming illiberal. All our institutionalized protections can be undone, given enough time, by an unsympathetic majority. The constitution can be amended, new judges can be appointed, agencies can be dismantled, and freedoms can be curtailed. And once a democracy devolves into illiberal majoritarianism, it rarely stays democratic for long. 'If America ever loses its liberty,' Tocqueville prophesied, 'the fault will surely lie with the omnipotence of the majority, which may drive minorities to despair and force them to resort to physical force.' Institutions can slow down the march toward majoritarian tyranny, but they cannot stop it.
To remain truly democratic, people have to be willing to protect each other's rights and interests even when they control enough votes to do otherwise. They have to recognize each other's right to exist, express opinions, and participate fully in the political process. And they have to preserve the laws and institutions that guarantee human rights and civil liberties for everyone, not just for the ruling majority. We must have enough regard for each other that we decline to use the mechanisms of democracy to treat our fellow citizens unjustly.
Another way to say this is that we must not be enemies. We must be friends.”
Source: We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition
“Ultimately, there's no path towards police abolition—or even police reform—that doesn't involve a reckoning with police unions as the central bastion of police power. Not only are the police the enemies of workers and people of color, but from their very origin they have been synonymous with a racialized division of the working class that has always forestalled progress, much less revolution. Police unions today remain faithful to those origins into that history of betrayal.”
Source: A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
“Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.”
“Ultimately, they gamble in reckless desperation and the dream world brings no relief. It brings only increased debt and extreme anxiety, driving family and friends further away. But the obsession to gamble is accelerated nonetheless. The gamblers' self-destruction becomes a terrifying experience for families and loved ones and may involve their destruction as well.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.”
“Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.”
“Ultimately virility is all about helping others express their reluctantly shared feelings while doing so from a safe distance.”
Source: Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
“Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.”
“Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.”
Source: Illusion
“Ultimately, we are all dead men - we only become born again after we have discovered our purpose, a reason to live.”
“Ultimately, we are moved to action only by emotion. That's because action is emotion.”
Source: Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
“Ultimately we have got to co-operate for our common destiny.”
“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”
“Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.”
Source: A Beautiful Way: An Invitation To A Jesus-centered Life
“Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.”
“Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.”
“Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.”
Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
“Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.”
“Ultimately we're all responsible for putting our belief into action.”
“Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.”
“Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.”
“Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.”
“Ultimately, what I realized is I wasn’t looking for an equal partner, there was a knowing in place that I was energetically feeling for a partner who was also at a place of internal alignment.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.”
“Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.”
“Ultimately what is not needed now is recriminations.”
“Ultimately, what makes creative people creative isn't just their flair for art, words, or song. It's their belief that they can figure it out. Their willingness to risk failure rather than give up.”
Source: The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living
“Ultimately what matters is the inward and invisible voices of our inner being. Because all-surpassing power lives within us.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“Ultimately what we actors are doing is communicating with people who are feeling alone or feeling different or confused or whatever and you're communicating and saying, "Hey, I don't get to know you, but here's a piece of me and you're not alone. We're in this together." Hopefully that communication has maybe made some people feel less alone.”
“Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.”
“Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.”
“Ultimately when I am with you all, what I see is my Guru. And what is he? He is love.”
“Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.”
“Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.”
“Ultimately, whether myth is religion or folk tale is, and always has been, a question of faith. When Europeans encountered the narratives of the peoples they colonized, they dismissed them as ‘myths’—whence the modern, pejorative sense of ‘myth’ as ‘fiction’ or ‘falsehood’—but their own Garden of Eden, Holy Trinity, and Easter Resurrection they regarded instead as theology.”
Source: The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist