“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?” KnowsMenHas BeensSoulFacesSpiritSufferingGrowthSecretGreatnessDisciplineEndureRuinsGrantedTensionMaskUnhappinessCunningFace To FaceInterpretingProfundityInventivenessEnhancement Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.” IfsFactsFacesOrderGrowthEconomyEconomicPoliticianFundamentalsGreenTensionEconomic GrowthEconomic Order Author:Michael Pollan
“Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.” NationsGrowthPowerfulViolenceTensionCastes Author:Narendra Modi
“Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.” IfsSocialCausesGrowthShareIncreaseWorkersTension Author:Kenneth Rogoff
“Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.” ActionGrowthCommunityCreativeIssuesTypeDirectCrisisViolentTensionNot AfraidIgnoredConstructiveNon ViolentDirect ActionCreative Tension Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them.” IfsNeedsDifferentProblemGrowthViewsRolesEconomyEconomicLowsStrongerInvestmentCompromiseTensionGermanyEconomic GrowthNeed A ChangeCentral BanksDifferent Views Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.” WayTwoProcessGrowthStonesWoodsTensionFarming Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Chicago has always been a very segregated city and Mt. Greenwood is an example of that. I can't say I've seen organized white-supremacist growth, but I have seen racial tensions increase. I think we've all seen that. In the Barack Obama presidency, especially, the far right has considered diversity a code word for white genocide.” ThinkingGrowthDiversityBarackCodeTensionGenocide Author:Christian Picciolini
“The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.” WayHumansProblemYoungEnergyCausesGrowthReligiousEconomicKeysRootsEnvironmentalRatePopulationTensionEmpoweringAddressesYoung WomenProvenImprovingPublic HealthUnendingFertilityLoomingRoot CauseHuman PopulationEmpower Yourself Author:Lawrence M. Krauss