Our Time Quotes - Page 33

• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Writing, Enemy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, Trying, Might

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Usury, Judaism

  Karl Marx (2015). “A World Without Jews”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Moving, Destiny

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Art, Technology, Organization

  Oskar Schlemmer, Tut Schlemmer (1990). “The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer”

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• Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Mike Tyson

  Running, Father, Hero

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• Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.

  Ernest Holmes

  Integrity, Giving, Causes

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• Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should Have, Sea, Knives

  "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi". Book by Louis Fischer, 1950.

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• Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Needs, Defense

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• And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

  Antonin Artaud

  Flames, Artistic, Victim

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Work, People

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

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• Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

  Walt Whitman

  Average, People, Effort

  Walt Whitman (1963). “Prose works 1892”

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• Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

  Mary Livermore

  Hopeful, Philanthropy, Characteristics

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• Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

  John Irving

  Christmas, Home, Loss

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• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Time, Effort, Management

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• The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Powerful, Kindness, Russia

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• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Whales, People, Greed

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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• 'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.'

  Russell Crowe

  Regret, Men, Oscars

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• If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Forget, Should

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.57, Zondervan

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• Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the planet in some potentially adverse way, and it may be that governments have done too little to address it. It is not a problem, however, that has escaped the attention of policymakers in the Executive and Legislative Branches of our Government, who continue to consider regulatory, legislative, and treaty-based means of addressing global climate change.

  John Roberts

  Mean, Government, Environmental

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• Science is the storytelling of our time.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Education, Storytelling

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• At the heart of world time is the momentum of history. At the heart of personal time is the mystery and wonder of individuality. At the heart of deep, new time is the creative spirit. But at the heart of our time is love.

  David Spangler

  Heart, Creative, Individuality

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• We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

  David Warlick

  Education, Teacher, Technology

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• I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• The way we spend our time defines who we are.

  Jonathan Estrin

  Time, Positivity, Who We Are

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