W Quotes
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“We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.”
“We must not even evade it, as the Indians do, by myths and meaningless words, such as reabsorption in Brahman, or the Nirvana of the Buddhists. On the contrary, we freely acknowledge that what remains after the complete abolition of the will is, for all who are still full of the will, assuredly nothing. But also conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world with all its suns and galaxies, is—nothing”
“We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected”
“We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.”
Source: Process and Reality
“We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'”
“We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.”
“We must not fall asleep in the present because the now moment is the only reality we truly have.”
Source: Anatomy Of Illumination
“We must not fall into the mistake of thinking that it is America that trades with Taiwan or Europe that trades with Asia. The truth is that it is American companies that trade with Taiwanese companies.”
“We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.”
Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986
“We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn, and it was encouraging to find that no Hoosier school district had inflicted his book on its students.”
“We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!”
“We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.”
“We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.”
“We must not forget either that some of the system's resilience is due to its ability to coopt people with money and prestige. It is easy to get sucked right in. Those who grasp the system are also likely to be talented and capable of doing well within the system. Who will turn down a lot of money? Who doesn't have an ego? A compromise here, another one there, and pretty soon, you are sucked right in.”
“We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.”
“We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.”
Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
“We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.”
“We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.”
“We must not forget that the very concept that women are equal to men is a relatively new one. It emerged only in the West and despite its advancements—from the right to vote to protection from discrimination in the workplace—has yet to achieve the complete equality to which feminists aspire. This fragile near equality, which exists in law if not in every home and workplace, has existed for only a fraction of time, and history has shown us that such achievements can be quickly reversed.”
Source: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
“We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.”
“We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as heavy as the great sacks upon their backs these simple, rough-handed people are the ancestors of our descendants, the fathers and mothers of our children.”
“We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.”
“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.”
“We must not forget that … monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown.”
“We must not forget this, moving forward as a species. Reality doesn't care how large or small the size of a box you manage to shove your consciousness into. Unique events that can only be described via allegory of the person who witnessed it are and will continue to be within the set of plausible interactions, available to us in our world.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“We must not forget to make a habit of modesty and restraint in our lives.”
Source: How Do You Live?
“We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.”
“We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.”
“We must not, however, see everything with a pessimist’s eyes. Our eyes should be set upon a bright star and always expecting the best, rather than always expecting for the worst cases to happen.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“We must not ignore that blunders exist in varying degrees of intensity. You only fail when you stop trying.”
“We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.”
Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.”
“We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.”
Source: Middlemarch
“We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.”
“We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.”
Source: And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines
“We must not judge those whose shoes we are unable to walk in ourselves. Every human has an intuitive, guidance that is often clear to them but not to others”
Source: Life Happens To Us: A True Story
“We must not just be recipients but givers! We must not just be keepers but donors! Giving brings relief and sharing enlightens the heart. Caring joins and showing love is life. It is never enough to acquire all acquisition. It is never enough to have all our ambitions. We must endeavor to give for giving out of a true heart is a true love and a true love is life.”
“We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.”
“We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.”
“We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.”
Source: My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
“We must not let boredom or greed dictate our lives and exploit our compulsive fantasies or spendthrift desires. ("Keeping up with the Joneses")”
“We must not let daylight in upon the magic.”
“We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.”
Source: Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...
“We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.”
“We must not let love’s tragedies stop us from
carrying on and maybe, just maybe, loving again.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.”
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.”
Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way