W Quotes
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“We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.”
“We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats”
Source: Challenge Liberty
“We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.”
“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
Source: Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
“We do not need to eliminate religion, or let me be a bit articulate and say – we cannot eliminate religion from the human society, as long as there is misery and malnourishment in this world. God is nature’s antidote to misery, and religion is the capsule it comes in. And those who try to take away religion from the people, are simply fools - and the irony is, some of them are scientists, and quite brilliant ones in their fields. Religion is far too valuable in the human society, that’s why it has survived so long. So, we do not need to eliminate religion, but to make it evolve at par with our civilized conscience.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do.”
“We do not need to endorse that [agains Muslims]type of activity nor should we.”
“We do not need to explain how the Aryans entered and settled in the Dravidian country, and subjugated and oppressed the Dravidians. Nor do we need to explain how before the Aryans entered the Dravidian country, the Dravidian country had a civilization and arts of the highest rank.”
“We do not need to explain how the Aryans entered and settled in the Dravidian country (tira¯vit»a na¯» t»u), and subjugated and oppressed the Dravidians. Nor do we need to explain how before the Aryans entered the Dravidian country, the Dravidian country had a civilization and arts of the highest rank.”
“We do not need to force altruism onto people. We only need to allow Permaculture Economics to flourish and people to pursue their own self interest.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
“We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.”
“We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!”
Source: FROM EROS TO GAIA
“We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American”
“We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model communities after nature's ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Since the outstanding characteristic of the biosphere is its inherent ability to sustain life, a sustainable human community must be designed in such a manner that its technologies and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.”
“We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.”
“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”
“We do not need to make up supernatural stories to believe in the goodness of great characters - goodness and greatness do not require magical nonsense to survive in a society of civilized beings.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”
Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.
(pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious.”
“We do not need to sacrifice ourselves on the altar of our creativity – it can be a transformative mode of healing, rather than a drawn-out self-destruction.”
Source: Creatrix: She Who Makes
“We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.”
“We do not need to understand economics in order to experience the benefits of freedom of exchange and production. But we may very well need to understand economics in order to sustain and maintain the institutional framework that enables us to realize the benefits that flow from freedom of exchange and production.”
“We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.”
“We do not need to use our own strength to fulfill the will of God”
“We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.”
“We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.”
“We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.”
“We do not observe reality, we observe our REACTIONS to it.
In other words:
Reality is, in essence, neutral. YOU give it meaning.”
Source: #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything
“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“We do not only dream the future, but also create the future in our dreams. Dreamtime is when we set new intentions for future manifestation, as well as record in the universal field or akashic record the progress we have made thus far in fulfilling our destiny.”
Source: The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
“We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.”
“We do not own the Earth. We borrow it from the generations who will remember what we did here.”
“We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?”
“We do not own the land! Land is like air and water. No one owns it.”
“We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.”
“We do not pay at the pump for the cost of climate change. For the loss of ecosystem services provided by maples and others. Cheap gas now or maples for the next generation? Call me crazy but I’d welcome the tax that would resolve that question. Individuals far wiser than I have said that we get the government we deserve. That may be true but the maples our most generous of benefactors, most responsible of citizens do not deserve our government: they deserve you and me speaking up on their behalf. To quote our town councilwoman “Show up at the damn meeting” Political action, civil engagement these are powerful acts of reciprocity with the land.
The maple nation bill of responsibilities asks us to stand up for the standing people to lead with the wisdom of maples.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“We do not perceive what is "out ther," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the elesctrical status of neurons or the physical or the chemical status of the receptors. The outside world is never taken into our consciousness. The outside world is rather our own creation, psychologically synthesized from the mass of sensations that envelope us. In many respects, the ultimate question that perception must ask was stated by John Stuart Mill in 1865. He asked, "What is it we mean, or what is it which leads us to say, that the objects we perceive are external to us, and not a part of our own thoughts?" That remains, perhaps, the ultimate, unresolved perceptual puzzle.”
“We do not perceive what is "out there," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the electrical status of neurons or the physical or the chemical status of the receptors. The outside world is never taken into our consciousness. The outside world is rather our own creation, psychologically synthesized from the mass of sensations that envelope us. In many respects, the ultimate question that perception must ask was stated by John Stuart Mill in 1865. He asked, "What is it we mean, or what is it which leads us to say, that the objects we perceive are external to us, and not a part of our own thoughts?" That remains, perhaps, the ultimate, unresolved perceptual puzzle.”
Source: Sensation and Perception
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—”
Source: The World in a Frame
“We do not posses God. We find him periodically.”
“We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”
“We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.”
“We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.”
“We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“We do not pray, fast, or give charity because Allah needs it, but because our spirits need to be in the presence of the Divine light to blossom. We are seeds, we are infinite potential hidden in the garden of a body, waiting to awaken through the mercy of Allah’s light.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love Journal: Insightful Reflections that Inspire Hope and Revive Faith