“A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for.” WayMindDoeWarFightingIndividualDealsLordFantasyStruggleConsequenceHonestlyRingsGreat MenEpic Author:George R. R. Martin
“We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.” WantBelieveLyingI BelieveNationsBehindsStruggleConsequenceResourcesDeterminationSurrenderPerceiveRetreatBullyExpandingPledgeBluster Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.” WayActionPastStruggleAliveConsequenceAlternativesRevolutionaryTragicOutlookVisionariesPropheticPragmatismPraxis Author:Cornel West
“We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.” PeopleWorldKindWarFacesEffortPrinciplesStruggleCivilizationConscienceConsequenceDestructionSilentRefusePartnersCivil WarRelentlessJoining Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose
“Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.” ThinkingKindSometimesDoneMemoriesAbilityStruggleImagineConsequenceProse Author:Shane McCrae
“It's a shameful piece of history and I think - I don't mean to be political or sobering or anything - but I think America, the United States, we still have to deal with the issue of our original sin, which was slavery. And I think we're seeing the ramifications, the consequences, of not really facing the truth as to what we as a nation struggled towards. You know, struggled with and are still struggling and rectifying.” ThinkingMeanPoliticalSinStruggleConsequenceSlaveryShamefulOriginal SinFacing The Truth Author:Tamlyn Tomita
“We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.” WorldImportantWholePoliticalSocialExistenceStruggleIntegritySpeechConsequenceRelationAtmosphereExploringIntegratedEcstaticCommencementTrust And RespectCommencement Speech Author:Hillary Clinton
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world” WorldPlayWholeLastsHateNationsStruggleConsequenceI HateCornersDeterminedBitterColonialismImperialismDetestCorners Of The World Author:Sukarno
“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.” WorldWayFirstsArtMightBeautifulPurposeIndividualLostUnderstandingTermResultsEffortQualityWorryStruggleObjectsProductsFindingsConsequenceFirst TimeMethodOneselfAestheticThickCanvasSuccess And FailureTrue PurposePurpose Of ArtBeautiful Objects Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink) Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)