“I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.” IfsAsksAnswersVegetarianSocialistVegetarianismAffirmative Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals
“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.” IfsFormDeathAnswersAcceptingDyingSweetEternalTransformationSympathyAffirmativeLove DeathSomeone DyingLoved One DyingSweet Death Book:Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography Source: Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography
“We are posing two very clear questions. The first is: Did the Holocaust actually take place? You answer this question in the affirmative. So, the second question is: Whose fault was it? The answer to that has to be found in Europe and not in Palestine. It is perfectly clear: If the Holocaust took place in Europe, one also has to find the answer to it in Europe.” IfsFirstsTwoFoundAnswersClearEuropeFaultsHolocaustPalestineAffirmativePosing Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found it?" I think we are a generation that perhaps could not answer in the affirmative, and it is the evasion of the larger responsibility of being only one generation in what one hopes will be an infinite series of fruitful generations. There is a selfishness in refusing to understand that we are passing through; others will come, and they deserve certain courtesies and certain considerations from us.” PeopleThinkingWorldCertainFoundAnswersResponsibilityGenerationsDegreesDeserveInfiniteSeriesLeavingPassingPassingsSelfishnessConsiderationCourtesyDisturbedAffirmativePassing ThroughEvasion Author:Marilynne Robinson
“Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveMadeAsksProcessAnswersAnimalMoralDoubtEvolutionFitPerfectionTigersAdmirableAffirmativeQuestionableBlakeMoral Perfection Author:John B. S. Haldane