W Quotes
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“We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.”
“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.”
“We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong - and possibly more morally wrong - to consume dairy”
“We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lowest levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders.”
“We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.”
Source: No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling And in Life
“We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.”
Source: De Officiis
“We should never stop at having won a soul for Christ. By this, we have done only half the work. Every soul won for Christ must be made to be a soul-winner.”
Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“We should never stop being curious, to always open any curiosity door we find.
Why are you keeping this curiosity door closed?”
“We should never think that once we have given some money and time to the Lord that the rest is ours to do with as we please. All that we have belongs to God, so He should be taken into consideration in everything we do.”
“We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.”
“We should never use the truth to wound.”
“We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.”
Source: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
“We should never worry about our reputation since our character will take care of it.”
“We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.”
“We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great nations are built. We should no longer allow any woman's voice to be drowned out or disregarded. As we affirm other women, and as we teach our sons, husbands and friends to hold them in the highest regard, we honor both the mothers whose shoulders we've stood on and the daughters who will one day stand tall on ours.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.”
“We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.”
“We should not accept an evil we can change.”
Source: We Were Liars
“We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.”
Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)
“We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.”
“We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.”
“We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't.”
“We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.”
“We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of ‘civilized’ manners and ‘cultured’ social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us.”
“We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.”
“We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.”
“We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.”
“We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.”
“We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.”
“We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?”
“We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.”
“We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.”
“We should not be afraid of mathematics. If you already understand nature, you understand mathematics.”
“We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.”
“We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.”
“We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.”
“We should not be arrogant and proud of ourselves; everything is given by a higher power or Maharaj Ji's grace.”
Source: नीम करोली बाबा की कृपा: एक दृढ़ता की कहानी
“We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.”
“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself”
Source: A History of the Arab Peoples
“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.”
“We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?”
“We should not be careless toward the fulfillment of our calling”
“We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.”
“We should not be complacent and view China’s actions as those of an alien nation; they are in many ways simply more honest about their totalitarianism. To control a population of disenfranchised and divided people, Western governments and bodies like the EU are all following China’s example and calling upon the power of digital and financial corporations to monitor and report on their citizen’s activities both in the real world and online. Their veneer of democratic respectability is peeling away, allowing people to see the truth that lies beneath.”
Source: Transition Point: From Steam to the Singularity
“We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.”
“We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.”
“We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.”
“We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.”
“We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions.”
“We should not be frightened by appearances.”