W Quotes
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“We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?”
“We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking, and hoping what we do magically works out. If it doesn’t, we rush to do something else, something also not well thought-out, and then hope for more magic.”
“We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.”
Source: A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.
Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today—and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?
They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us—they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.
And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.”
“We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.”
“We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation.”
“We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.”
“We have become a society that incentivizes, compensates, and rewards criminals, wrongful doing or actions, bad behavior and attitude, bad people, immorality, and uncultured and ill-mannered behavior. In the name of humanity (Ubuntu) or poverty. In the name of they are one of our own and they look like us. Then we wonder why the world is like this.”
“We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.”
“We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.”
“We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.”
“We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.”
Source: The Long-Legged House
“We have become compulsively addicted to that which does not reciprocate.”
Source: Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour
“We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.”
“We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing us to endlessly search for happiness in objects, experiences, and people to fill the emptiness and make us feel whole again. We crave pleasure, material riches, and stimulating experiences—anything that will distract us from this inherent lack of connection. But no matter how hard we try to escape it, eventually the sensation returns. And that is because we are looking for the answer to our freedom in all the wrong places. We are looking for freedom in the world, when the answer to ending our suffering lies within us. Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest itself in the world around us.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.”
“We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.”
Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena
“We have become imprisoned by technology and by our jobs. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious, responsible, and hard-working. But, I’d hate for anyone to die wishing they’d enjoyed life more and worked less. Your final thought should be, “Man, I had a friggin’ blast. An amazing life. No regrets. It’s been a great run. A crapload of fun.”
Source: Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional
“We have become imprisoned inside our own egos, walled off where true connection cannot reach us”
Source: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
“We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.”
“We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.”
“we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.”
Source: Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition
“We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.”
“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.”
“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
“We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It’s a strange thing isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning.”
Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“We have become part of the unfeeling world. This is why we need to come back to sensuality.”
“We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.”
Source: Robert Collier Copywriting Course - Masters of Marketing Secrets: Learn to Write Sales Letters That Pay
“We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God's coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God's coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us. The coming of God is truly not only glad tidings, but first of all frightening news for everyone who has a conscience.”
Source: God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
“We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.”
“We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.”
“We have become so dependent on technology. I am not fond of technology myself, and I do not have a smart phone.”
“We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.”
“We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.”
Source: How to be Free
“We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incorrect; this is costing us lives.”
“We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.”
“We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.”
“We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.”
“We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.”
“We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.”
“We have become, without realizing it, the most demanding audience our own life has ever had.”
Source: The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
“We have become world leaders in income inequality, racial tension, rape and illicit financial outflows.”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”
Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
“We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.”
“We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination