W Quotes
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“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender.”
“We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.”
“We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.”
“We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.”
“We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.”
“We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.”
“We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.”
“We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.”
“We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are.”
“We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.”
“We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.”
“We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.”
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
“We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).”
Source: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
“We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“We in the West regard the universe as a creation of God; like an invention or a product. After he created the universe, God set himself to oversee it and manage it. We see God as our boss. He created the universe, he is present in it, he manages every part of it, but he is still separate from it. It's like he installed video cameras all over the universe, so he can see everything that happens, and he can cause this or that to happen, but he is not a part of what happens. The Eastern view is very different. To the Hindu, for example, God didn't create the universe, but God became the universe. Then he forgot that he became the universe. Why would God do this? Basically, for entertainment. You create a universe, and that in itself is very exciting. But then what? Should you sit back and watch this universe of yours having all the fun? No, you should have all the fun yourself. To accomplish this, God transformed into the whole universe. God is the Universe, and everything in it. But the universe doesn't know that because that would ruin the suspense. The universe is God's great drama, and God is the stage, the actors, and the audience all at once. The title of this epic drama is "The Great Unknown Outcome." Throw in potent elements like passion, love, hate, good, evil, free will; and who knows what will happen? No one knows, and that is what keeps the universe interesting. But everyone will have a good time. And there is never really any danger, because everyone is really God, and God is really just playing around.”
Source: Philosophy For The Serious Heretic: The Limitations of Belief and the Derivation of Natural Moral Principles
“We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.”
Source: A Way of Being
“We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.”
“We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.”
“We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.”
“We in this country have to make up our minds -- -- we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.”
“We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.”
“We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
“We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.”
“We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.”
“We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.”
“We in US need active intelligence: people being on the streets, people being able to stop and ask questions of individuals that they suspect to put it together. Why wouldn't we be wanting to get some information that could actually prevent a terrorist attack, especially since we have so many individuals fighting that have passports coming back and spreading jihad.”
“We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.”
“We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.”
“We inched past the doughnut stand and were blasted full in the face by taco steam. Not that I was complaining. If all exfoliation steam smelled like tacos, sign me up for a spa day right now.”
Source: Best Served Hot
“We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.”
“We increase whatever we praise.”
Source: Dynamics for Living: A Topical Compilation of Essential Fillmore Teachings
“We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.”
Source: Dynamics for Living: A Topical Compilation of Essential Fillmore Teachings
“We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.”
“We inculcate in our children the sensibilities of raccoons, a fascination with shiny objects and an appetite for garbage, and then carp about 'the texting generation' as if thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds who couldn't boil an egg are capable of creating a culture. They grow on what we feed them. It has never been otherwise. The only thing that changes is the food.”
Source: Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher
“We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.”
“We Independents plow a huge field to reap half a peanut" in explanation as to Independent songwriters & publishers rarely receiving deserved royalties.”
Source: An Unstoppable Survivor
“We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.”
“We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have power. A blade of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power. We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well. It protects us.”
“We Indians have to keep aside our December for friends who've settled abroad.
Everyone is visiting. Everyone wants to party.”
“We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“We inevitably,
connect through the heart
and
not through our background details.”
Source: DO WE MAKE FRIENDS AFTER SCHOOL?
“We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.”
“We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“We influence the universe without ever
speaking a word, teaching and learning
life lessons through subtle vibrations.”
Source: PAPA A Journey Back: Stories of Family, Friends & Life by an Italian American
“We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.”
Source: Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence