“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.” IfsMenWorldHas BeensPoliticalMotherDesireCultureWinningSituationTeachSurvivalDaughterStrategyMalesBetrayHostileMother DaughterAdrift Author:Elizabeth Debold
“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.” ThinkingWorldPlayPainPoliticalSpiritNamesProcessUnderstandingAudienceSubjectsSeriousNormalSurvivalConnectionsBoxesTerrorismTheatreRationalPromotingAnti Terrorism Author:John Lahr
“The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.” DoeSelfSpiritualPoliticalFeltMy OwnCasesWorstDangerousEmotionalCoupleSurvivalConceptsVariousConfusionTemptationInvitesSurvivedHonorableSevereIndulgenceAcidCrazinessAuschwitzSelf IndulgenceAcid Trip Book:Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll Source: Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll
“Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds.” WorldTwoDifferentFilmPoliticalGamesStruggleSurvivalLaborFeaturesFilmmakingLocksRollingBullshitExhaustingDifferent WorldsPolitical GamesStruggle For SurvivalTwo Different Worlds Author:George Hickenlooper
“It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.” PoliticalTalkingIssuesSurvivalClimateClimate ChangePopePolitical Issues Author:Joy Bryant
“If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics.” IfsWantNeedsWarPoliticalNextPovertyCenturySurvivalSickClimateClimate ChangeDetermineHealCuresAddressesEtcLimbsPolitical SystemsAilments Author:Jill Stein
“There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with the psychological explanations. Even psychological states like fear or desire for safety are conditioned by social and political forms of intimidation and scare-mongering that intensify those emotions, and even work to persuade people that nothing less than their survival is at stake.” PeopleThinkingWayWantKindStatesFormPoliticalDesireSocialEmotionSecuritySurvivalSafetyPsychologicalAll KindsExplanationScareStakesExplainingIntimidation Author:Judith Butler
“In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs, looking desperately for some hope things would change. Religion was forbidden beginning in 1968, when I was born. So my communication with them was limited to issues of everyday life, which were issues of survival.” TryingPoliticalSeriousCommunicationSurvivalMy FamilyEverydayEveryday LifeForbiddenSmall Talk Author:Luljeta Lleshanaku
“I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.” PeopleKindPoliticalCuttingSurvivalStorytelling Author:Faith Adiele
“Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.” PeoplePoliticalBabyMomSurvivalVoteBlindDesperateProtestBlindnessRegisterExterminationBaby BoyNew BabyMy Baby Boy Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY
“John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.” MenMadeTwoSelfPoliticalSkillsSurvivalUltimateBlueDecadesServingSandwichesMoldHacksSelf Serving Author:Matt Taibbi
“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.” KnowsChildrenPlaySciencePoliticalForceNatureBornNaturalViewsWatchesSacrificeGreatnessMastersIndustryCreaturesSurvivalStrongerBoundariesStrongestFavouriteGlobesLiving CreaturesFree Play Author:Adolf Hitler
“People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.” PeopleWayNeedsHumansSpiritualPoliticalValuesHumanityVisionImagineSeaEconomicPlanetsSurvivalAlternativesHuman HistoryOur PlanetRestorationEcologicalTurning PointsOld WaysSpiritual ValuesSea Change Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.” HumansWholePoliticalStruggleDemocracySurvivalClimateClimate ChangeOilBillionsStakesEcosystemsPolitical StrugglePeak Oil Author:Richard Heinberg
“This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.” PeopleIfsPoliticalTaughtLessonsSurvivalOkayFundamentalsBillsClintonGet BackLife Lesson Author:Paul Begala
“That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.” ThinkingWellsImportantDoneMomentsMotivationalPoliticalMotivationFeltDealsLeaderFiguresSurvivalTradeWorthyThat MomentTrade Offs Author:Mary McDonnell
“It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful that Obama knows anything about the history of these ideas, and it is even more doubtful that he cares. A concern for truth is not the coin of the political realm.” KnowsIdeasFeelingsCarePoliticalSocialClearTruth IsSurvivalConcernRealmsDisgustingCoinsEvokeDoubtfulDarwinismSurvival Of The FittestSocial Darwinism Author:George H. Smith
“Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is going to crumble. If countries of Third World cannot pay their debts, you are going to suffer here in the North. If you do not take care of the Third World, your well-being is not going to last, and you will not be able to continue living in the way you have been much longer. It is leaping out at us already. You cannot leave the job to the governments or the political scientists alone. You have to do it yourself.” IfsWorldWayHumansWellsKindMeanHas BeensCountryWholeGovernmentCareAbleJobsLastsPoliticalSufferingPayConflictSurvivalScientistThirdsSouthDebtTake CareWell BeingThird WorldDo It Yourself Author:Nhat Hanh
“America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.” AmericaFacesPoliticalChoicesLibertyStruggleBlessingSurvivalFundamentalsLiberalismExtinctionServitudePolitical StruggleStruggle For Survival Author:Nancy Pearcey