“We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.” NeedsEndsFactsWishCan DoRiskAssumingPossessionSugarInsectsAssuranceSilent SpringControllersSugar Coating Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.” WarEndsEarthWomenEnlightenmentAssumingCrueltyOppression Author:Frederick Lenz
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.” PeopleThinkingEndsYoungWishPleasureSorrowImportanceAssumingNotionFulfilled Author:Hermann Hesse
“Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened.” WantEndsDoneTodayPoliticalGoalResponsibilityGreaterHappenedAssumingAvoidingHarborsChileDisintegrationFatherlandRancorPolitical Responsibility Author:Augusto Pinochet
“It is not unreasonable to assume that the works of God, their existence and preceding non-existence, are the result of His wisdom, but we are unable to understand many of the ways of His Wisdom in His works. On this principle the whole Law of Moses is based; it begins with this principle: "And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good" (Gen. i. 31); and it ends with this principle: "The Rock, perfect is His work" (Deut. xxxii. 4). Note it.” WayMadeEndsWholeLawPerfectResultsExistencePrinciplesSawsRocksAssumingNotesVery GoodMosesUnreasonableNon Existence Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.” ThinkingEndsWaitingPayRemainsAssumingDetermineAppreciationTricksPermitHegel Book:The Archaeology of Knowledge Source: The Archaeology of Knowledge