“Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.” IfsPoliticalActorsNamesBitsNiceMinutesSubjectsChangedReadyArmsColdComfortDirectorsSticksCastsDetailsNewspapersNosesExtrasItalianInquiryRequestRefinedMarcosArchivesPolitical Life Author:Indro Montanelli
“If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today” IfsMenWayMightAgeTodayPoliticalReligiousAbilityMoralPrinciplesMiddleHe ManComfortPrejudiceMiddle AgesDiscomfortMedievalFilthSofasCraftsmanArmchairsAbility To Change Author:Aldous Huxley
“On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.” HumorPoliticalAsksNationsPrayerWalksWatchesPrayingSorrowComfortPromiseResolveGrantsAlmightyRemembranceMournConsolePolitical HumorAlmighty GodNational Day Of Prayer Author:George W. Bush
“I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansLittlesSaidCarePoliticalAttentionPathRightsPlanetsComfortPropertyActivismParksBikeAbstractionProperty RightsEnvironmentalistHuman NeedsPolitical ActivismVolvo Author:George Carlin
“To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.” PoliticalIndividualSocialEconomicMediaComfortCapacityOvercomingRelationProfitEntertainmentEducationalLimitationEtcCollectivesFlawsSanityPublic RelationsCollective Intelligence Author:Tom Atlee
“In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.” PeopleShouldTryingMindKindEndsPoliticalCommunityLeaderDemocracyComfortShould HaveThe End Of The DayZoneDiverseComfort ZonePolitical LeadersAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Bill Ayers
“Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment.” PeopleHas BeensWarMomentsPoliticalNaturalTakenComfortDisasterGrantedCatastropheThreateningRefugeeRemindersNatural Disaster Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they are to talk about refugees in a human way - far from how this would affect their careers or individual comforts - and if they, for a second, look at a mother, sitting on a road somewhere, holding her children, shivering with cold, and crying because they are hungry, I'm sure there is a part of their humanity that would shiver.” ChildrenPoliticalMotherHumanityIndividualDecisionOpinionCryColdPoliticianComfortHungryRefugeeShiver Author:Yasmine Elmasri
“Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.” PoliticalComfortRepublicanWorkplace Author:Emily Yoffe
“As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.” PeopleBelieveImportantRealPainPoliticalJoySpiritSongI BelieveEmotionComfortReal LifeGrievingHard Times Author:John Darnielle
“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.” ThinkingKnowsGivingMindHumansHas BeensStatesFactsRealityPoliticalOrderReligiousViewsComfortAuthorityOceanSpeciesChaosEducationalVulnerableVulnerabilityConfusedWho We AreRegulationFrighteningHuman HistoryChaoticOpen MindednessPsychedelic ExperienceInformingThink For Yourself Author:Timothy Leary