Predicaments Quotes - Page 4

• If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.

  Gao Xingjian

  Eye, Men, Names

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• A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

  Angela Davis

  People, Black, Important

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

  Terence McKenna

  Long, Miracle, Has Beens

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• The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Opaque

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• We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.

  Al Gore

  Fall, Civilization, Unusual

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• It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Age, Quality

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• We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

  Leonard Cohen

  Needs, Forget, Frightening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Writing, Character, Numbers

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• I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, "Judge not lest you be judged."

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Judging, Common, Despotism

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Common, Communist, Democrat

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

  Felicity Jones

  Self, Interesting, Inner Strength

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Thinking, Kyoto, Energy

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean capitalism as an ideology, I mean the behavior of acquired wealth and its deployment for productive purpose. (A lot of educated idiots don't understand this, and we waste a lot of time blathering about capitalism.)

  James Howard Kunstler

  Mean, Deployment, Energy

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Dogs have found themselves in an odd predicament by living with humans. In the wild, dogs don't need humans to achieve balance. They have a pack leader, work for food and travel with the pack. When we bring them into our world, we need to help them achieve balance by fulfilling their needs as nature intended. This takes exercise and discipline before affection, and always maintaining your calm, assertive pack leadership.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Exercise, Our World

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

  Leonard Cohen

  Religious, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forgiving, Done, Redemption

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not have enough troops in Samarra. The skill and courage of 150 American soldiers prevented chaos, but was never enough to fully secure a city of 120,000 people or maintain the rule of law [...] Second, because of a lack of troops, American military leaders are forced to make a choice between mission objectives and self-preservation.

  Pete Hegseth

  Military, Self, Law

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• Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?

  Wendell Berry

  Discipline, Unity, Together

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.43, Counterpoint

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• Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

  Chris Weitz

  Fighting, Thinking, Rights

  Source: collider.com

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• My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.

  Philip Kitcher

  Lying, Animal, Fundamentals

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Dream, Buttons, Helping

  Source: content.time.com

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• A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways?

  Jaden Smith

  People, Decision, Different

  "Willow and Jaden". Interview with Pharrell Williams, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

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