“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.” MenLooksI CanRealEndsMomentsMillionsFantasyImagineGenerationsTerribleDramaHorrorEssentialsBenefitsInjusticeTrialsCrueltyRevolutionarySincerelyFuture GenerationUtopiaMassacresDeportation Book:The World's Last Night: And Other Essays Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?” PeopleNeedsDoeHas BeensI CanEndsActionPracticeIssuesImagineColorBenefitsDiversityCeaseEntitledSegregationAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Eric Holder
“We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.” WayYearsMadeMillionsImagineEvolutionCreaturesOceanBenefitsDiscoveryFantasticRepresentingCompounds Author:Edith Widder
“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.” ShouldHas BeensMightWantedJoyTurnsJesusFeltDifficultMy OwnLordImagineEventsSorrowBenefitsTragedyContraryThis LifeShockUnexpectedGoing AwayProvidenceApostlesSetbackDepartureFathomBewildermentInscrutable Author:Patrick Madrid
“Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.” IfsNeedsMindPersonsClearMeditationImagineLimitsAnxietyBenefitsStressCrisisCalmReachingCopingReductionStress And AnxietyClear MindsStress Reduction Author:Deepak Chopra
“Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.” IfsKnowsGivingHardHappensTodayDifficultDifferencesImagineFiguresGiving UpBenefitsShoesSavingBuyingFundPairsRetirementImagine ThatBicyclePair Of Shoes Author:Dan Ariely
“If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.” IfsLooksStruggleImagineBenefitsApplesFarmersWowDeliciousPotatoesCrookedCarrotsPeachesShoppers Author:Dana Cowin
“Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.” PeopleStatesUseEnergyUnitedHalfUnited StatesImagineReadyAmountEasierBenefitsEuropeScalesFuelFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bill McKibben
“I think there is an American attitude that is very hard to break which is "We're great. Who wouldn't want to be like us? Who wouldn't want to have the benefits of our largesse, handing out aid and having American companies based in their countries?" and "our culture is great," and all that. It's hard for us to imagine ourselves as not being the greatest country on earth.” ThinkingWantCountryHardEarthCultureAttitudeCompanyBreakImagineBenefitsAidsLargesse Author:Hooman Majd
“One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But this excuse cannot work for large numbers. Just imagine 10 million US citizens saying in unison: "I am just one powerless citizen. There is nothing I can do to change my government's policies!"” IfsMayI CanGovernmentCan DoNumbersMillionsImaginePolicyCitizensBenefitsExcuseDeterminedJust OneUnjustPowerlessLarge NumbersImpositionUnison Author:Thomas Pogge
“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayWritingWellsKindI CanBookPoliticalSocialLevelsImagineThis WorldBenefitsWho I AmInvolvementPolitical Involvement Author:Jose Saramago
“I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.” PeopleI CanUseRememberMy OwnDealsWiseImagineBenefitsObservingBeing WiseInconsistency Book:The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated) Source: The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)
“Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.” PeopleLongWholeHomeWould BeTodayLawYoungPoliticalOrderSocialCommunityLeaderPracticeSupportImagineStreetsAchieveSecurityCrimeBenefitsToughResourcesCriticismLonelyRaisesThreatViolentVulnerableSuspectsScarRhetoricShut UpCultBullySocial SecurityElderlyLaw And OrderPolitical LeadersMatchedSocial ServicePredatoryYoung Life Author:Margaret Thatcher
“on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.” WayHumansCommunityImagineTalentPlanetsBenefitsHonoredEmployed Author:Anita Diament