W Quotes
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“When we consider further the social and psychological roots of the collective urge to kill the world, we are likely to see more of ourselves in it and to begin to think of such groups as something of a dark "cultural underground" of our own society. We are also likely to discover that whatever renders our society more decent and more inclusive in its benefits is likely to undermine the totalistic impulse to destroy everything.”
Source: Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism
“When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“When we consider life a process and do our level best to better it, it becomes a direction that undeniably has the destination in sight.”
“When we consider our rich inner communities, we will find it is quite possible that more than one pattern of attachment can arise at the same time, sometimes in support of the others and sometimes in conflict.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history.”
Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.”
Source: The Essence Of Wisdom
“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?”
“When we consider that our bodies and environments are data, we realize the importance of data privacy, ethics and governance.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“When we consider that so few generations had passed since the
church left off disemboweling innocent men before the eyes of their
families, burning old women alive in public squares, and torturing
scholars to the point of madness for merely speculating about the
nature of the stars, it is perhaps little wonder that it failed to think
anything had gone terribly amiss in Germany during the war years.”
“When we consider that those who are unemployed are disproportionally people from the margins, we realize that our economic system is geared to prevent certain segments of our population from keeping God's commandment, "Six days you shall labor." Reading the Bible from the margins, because it is a contextual reading, subverts traditional readings and seriously critiques the dominant culture.”
“When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”
“When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.”
Source: Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds
“When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time.”
“When we consider the major role intimidation plays in this ideology, which was still at the peak of its popularity at the turn of the century, it is not surprising that Sigmund Freud had to conceal his surprising discovery of adults' sexual abuse of their children, a discovery he was led to by the testimony of his patients. He disguised his insight with the aid of a theory that nullified this inadmissible knowledge. Children of his day were not allowed, under the severest of threats, to be aware of what adults were doing to them. and if Freud had persisted in his seduction theory, he not only would have had his introjected parents to fear but would no doubt have been discredited, and probably ostracized, by middle-class society. In order to protect himself, he had to devise a theory that would preserve appearances by attributing all “evil”, guilt and wrongdoing to the child's fantasies. in which the parents served only as the objects of projection. We can understand why this theory omitted the fact that it is the parents who not only project their sexual and aggressive fantasies onto the child but also are able to act out these fantasies because they wield the power. It is probably thanks to this omission that many professionals in the psychiatric field, themselves the products of "poisonous pedagogy" have been able to accept the Freudian theory of drives, because it did not force them to question their idealized image of their parents. With the aid of Freud's drive and structural theories, they have been able to continue obeying the commandment they internalized in early childhood: "Thou shalt not be aware of what your parents are doing to you.”
Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense.”
“When we consider there is more interactions for a disaster, than a success - Why always try to be so perfect‽”
“When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.”
Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“When we consistently consume the God-breathed Words of the Bible, it teaches us, rebukes us, corrects us, trains us and it thoroughly equips us for every good work. God’s Word is filled with love, redemption, blessing, and promise.”
“When we Consistently Generate Thoughts of Giving ... we Attract the Energy of Giving Back to Us”
Source: The Shift: Taking Your Life from Ambition to Meaning
“When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.”
Source: Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World
“When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.”
“When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“When we constantly react to assumptions and hearsay, bad things happen.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.”
“When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.”
Source: Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent
“When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
“When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.”
Source: Philosophical works
“When we contemplate, we realize that one moment is not separate from the other;
What we need is to live from one moment to the next, as this is reality of the eternal now.”
“When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.”
“When we control our emotions, we harness
the power of cognitive reasoning.”
Source: The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.
“When we cooperate, everybody wins.”
“When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.”
“When we count our blessings, we find the best comfort.”
“When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.”
“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner, but scratch anxiously the shining shell of a fair-weather world, find out how to discover real values; and foster a candid quality of our desire ("Absence of Desire" )”
“When we create a garden, no matter how small or where it is in the world, we enrich the world as a whole.”
“When we create a real relationship with ourselves then we are finally free to have a real relationship with life itself.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“When we create an environment that ensures a space where our dreams can burgeon, happiness can let us see the wonders in everyday moments and value the intricate tapestry of life. (“When is Happiness?”)”
“When we create and share, we bare a little more of our soul to the world. That is one of our greatest strengths.”
Source: Pearls of Light: passion, poetry & positive affirmations
“When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.”
“When we create monsters, we have no right to expect them not to act monstrous.”
Source: War Dog: Hound of the Gods Book One
“When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“When we create peace, and harmony, and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
“When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations.”
“When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.”
“When we criticize or judge a friend or colleague, the negativity doesn’t hit them, it hits you double-fold, you become toxic and defines who you are.”