So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Because you’re still asking me that question."
[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]
Tags: progress understanding femininism
The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived!
Wallace StegnerTags: progress empathy technology modern-society shallowness deprivation
As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things, and those who give precedence to suffering will be left behind. They fetter us with their sniveling. We have someplace to go and must believe we can get there, wherever that may be. And to conceive that there is a 'brotherhood of suffering between everything alive' would disable us from getting anywhere. We are preoccupied with the good life, and step by step are working toward a better life. What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next — as if we were playing a board game we think will never end, despite the fact that it will, like it or not. And if you are too conscious of not liking it, then you may conceive of yourself as a biological paradox that cannot live with its consciousness and cannot live without it. And in so living and not living, you take your place with the undead and the human puppet.
Thomas LigottiTags: consciousness progress suffering depression
Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.
T.F. HodgeTags: progress greatness self think transformation quotes speak
We have undoubtedly achieved Pakistan, and that too without bloody war, practically peacefully, by moral and intellectual force, and with the power of the pen, which is no less mighty than that of the sword and so our righteous cause has triumphed. Are we now going to besmear and tarnish this greatest achievement for which there is no parallel in the history of the world? Pakistan is now a fait accompli and it can never be undone, besides, it was the only just, honourable, and practical solution of the most complex constitutional problem of this great subcontinent. Let us now plan to build and reconstruct and regenerate our great nation...
Muhammad Ali JinnahTags: progress peace islam muslim pakistan partition jinnah
Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.
Amin MaaloufTags: progress knowledge modernity
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
Criss JamiTags: truth certainty progress learning freedom hypocrisy right uncertainty justification contradiction productivity proof development discipline self-denial
Esoteric things progress not according to time, but by activity, they can be slow or quick, depending upon the efforts made.
BelsebuubTags: progress time activity efforts
Stagnation is self-abdication.
Ryan TalbotTags: progress self-esteem self-worth inaction stagnation self-abdication
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Christopher HitchensTags: life progress knowledge reason discovery
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