W Quotes
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“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.”
“We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific nature, regardless of what we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We will be happier if we face reality on its own terms.”
“We can contain these threats with the right regulatory frameworks. We always have.”
Anatole responded, “These are not our grandfather’s threats. Even the nuclear threat remains uncontained. We cannot put that genie back into its bottle.”
Braun pressed, “So, what is your solution?”
Anatole began to sweat visibly as he started his big reveal. “The superorganism demands our servitude. It demands growth, innovation, and invention. It demands our sacrifice. We cannot resist its clarion call. Can anyone explain why we need social media? Or cryptocurrency? Of course, you can. But you’d have a hard time explaining what problem these technologies solved. If the goals of progress are freedom, safety, health, and happiness, shouldn’t we stop and ask ourselves if we actually feel safer, freer, healthier, and happier?”
Source: G.A.I.A.: A World on the Brink in the Age of A.I.
“We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it”
“We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.”
“We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.”
“We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.”
“We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.”
“We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.”
“We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.”
“We can control our borders, we just choose not too.”
“We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.”
“We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.”
“We can cooperate more easily with those who more easily intelligible to us, who are more familiar to us. But the advantages of specialization of labor often push us in the direction working with people who have different strengths and viewpoints than we do. I think that this is one major reason why moralities are always subject to change, because some of the people we cooperate with are going to be different from us in ways that often lead them to have different value orientations than we have; and interacting with them can change us.”
“We can count on Christ to gives us strength to endure every circumstance.”
“We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.”
Source: Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom For Complex Lives
“We can create a more beautiful nature by not touching it and by leaving it alone!”
“We can create a more nurturing environment by surrounding ourselves with love and support, learning and becoming friends with our minds, and continuing to dismantle harmful social norms in ourselves and in our networks.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“We can create a story that scares us, keeping us frozen or stuck, or we can create one of hope, luring us out of our complacency to the next best thing.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.”
“We can create some information about
Buffalo, milk and its nutritional values. We
can exchange that information with each other for money, appreciation etc.
A monk living alone in jungle doesn't know
words such as Buffalo, milk or nutrition. He
just wonders, "Green grass enters into this big black thing and a white liquid comes out of it. How!" He can't exchange this wonder with anyone but it transports him to eternity.”
“We can create the sensation of community through the accrual of actions, and that's often the clichéd way that storytelling is talked about, as someone taking a solo, and that's great for lots of reasons. But I don't really like to feel like I'm forced to listen to it in a certain way, or that there is one master reading of performance. I think what we want from performance is multiplicity, which is lots of ways in and through it, because it's for lots of people, and it was created by lots of people, often.”
“We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.”
“We can critically reflect on the influences that have shaped us. We can evaluate the quality and meaning of these various relationships and explore our dependency as well as our power and privilege in them. This reflection can be a kind of perceptual therapy that helps us develop our ethical skills. The goal, however, is not to transcend the relationships but to understand and improve them, in part by improving our self-conceptions. Our relationships with human and animal others co-constitute who we are and how we configure our identities and agency, even our thoughts and desires. We can't make sense of living without others, and that includes other animals. We are entangled in complex relationships and rather than trying to accomplish the impossible by pretending we can disentangle, we would do better to think about how to be more perceptive and more responsive to the deeply entangled relationships we are in.”
Source: Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals
“We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them”
“We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”
Source: Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)
“We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.”
Source: A Simple Path-Open Market
“We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy.”
“We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.”
“We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.”
“We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.”
“We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.”
“We can dedicate ourselves to staying connected to supportive people who will receive us without expectations or judgments.
In that process, we will internalize them as they nurture our wounded ones. They will then join and foster those parts of ourselves who can be present with the ones who come to us in their suffering and recovery.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.”
“We can deeply love our poison. We can love the taste of it, the scent of it, the comforting weight of it in our belly and find ourselves woken in the night with stabbing cramps, arms around porcelain toilet bowls, hurling every last bit until collapsing on bathroom tile, limp from dehydration. Sometimes parting with love is essential for survival. I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them.”
Source: Just Another Number
“We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.”
“We can demolish all the chaos, loneliness, discrimination and wars of the world, once we simply get hold of our desires - and we can do so, not by force, but only by being aware of their harms.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“We can deny angels exist, convince ourselves they can't be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They'll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.”
“We can deny the destructive nature of our choices. And we can deny the consequences of those choices even when they litter the landscape of our lives and our culture with the burning wreckage of our foolishness. But are we ignorant enough to die by the hand of the ignorance that we’ve perpetually fed because it serves our agenda, or do we wish to live by letting it starve so that it’s no longer feeding on us?”
“We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.”
“We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels.”
“We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.”
“We can destroy only as creators”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.”
Source: Civilisation
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“We can develop a small space between ourselves and our bodies and minds. In this way, even if we are suffering something physically or mentally, it will not have such an impact on our inner stability.”
Source: Nanima: Spiritual Fiction
“We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.”