W Quotes
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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
“We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.”
“We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!”
“We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.”
“We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.”
“We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.”
“We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].”
“We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on in future cases is a political standard.”
“We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.”
“We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.”
“We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.”
“We must approach exercises as we approach the treatment of an illness. We get orders from a doctor, but the individual knows best how the orders should be carried out.
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (p. 33). Dover Publications. Kindle Edition.”
“We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts and retain as though by right, provided that we behave ourselves. They are CONSTANTLY RENEWED GIFTS. The life of grace in our hearts is renewed from moment to moment, directly and personally by God in his love for us.”
Source: Contemplative Prayer
“We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We must arise and build the nation.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.”
Source: Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
“We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.”
Source: Pocket Aristotle
“We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.”
“We must ask ourselves, in the long run, which of our material objects truly enhance our lives?”
Source: What Your Soul Already Knows
“We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?”
Source: The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection
“We must ask ourselves: what should we demand of ourselves, given the imperfections of politics and the disappointments of history.”
“We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?”
“We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.”
“We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.”
“We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?”
Source: How Musical is Man?
“We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.”
Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.”
“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”
Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure
“We must assume, I think, that
the forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink of
all its possible consequences; ghost consequences, comparable to the ghost toes of an
amputee or to the fanning out of additional squares which a chess knight (that skips-pace piece), standing on a marginal file, "feels" in phantom extensions beyond the
board, but which have no effect whatever on his real moves, on the real play.”
Source: Pale fire
“We must assume, I think, that the forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink of all its possible consequences; ghost consequences, comparable to the ghost toes of an amputee or to the fanning out of additional squares which a chess knight (that skipspace piece), standing on a marginal file, "feels" in phantom extensions beyond the board, but which have no effect whatever on his real moves, on the real play.”
Source: Pale fire
“We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable.”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
“We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.”
“We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.”
“We must, at once re-educate the next generation not to fall prey to this lowly level of thinking. Thus, making them strong enough to survive the next episode of life.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.”
“We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.”
“We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.”
“We must avoid possession," he said. "But, oh, let me kiss you.”
“We must avoid telling ourselves that we are forever committed to the trajectory of our thoughts and feelings today.”
“We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.”
“We must be able, at any time, to accept the fact that we could all be absolutely and utterly wrong”
“We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny.”
“We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.”
“We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.”
“We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this becomes a real art... Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the single growth of the psychic processes in peace.”
“We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.”
“We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.”
“We must be alert, our eyes must be opened and our ears must be very attentive”