Others Quotes - page 100

The mores I return to myself, the more I divest myself, under the traumatic effect of persecution, of my freedom as a constituted, wilful, imperialistic subject, the more I discover myself to be responsible' the more just I am, the more guilty I am. I am 'in myself' through others. (Emmanuel Levinas)
Farmers have their dignity, just as others do. It is fine to make efforts to make them react to markets, but you cannot then tie their hands and take away their choices. That is putting them in a straitjacket. ... I have always felt that the Community should be able to say 'No' to its big brother. View quote
Jacques Delors
Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. View quote
Albert Bandura
The arts which achieve their effect through purity have never been arts that were good for everything. Greek sculpture (among others) with its decadence, teaches us this. View quote
Georges Braque
The two conditions that lead others to languor – i.e. leisure and solitude – him made sharper. View quote
Cicero
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. View quote
Cicero
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. View quote
Cicero
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. (Cicero)
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. View quote
Cicero
I believe that he (Strauss) will remain one of the characteristic and outstanding figures in musical history. Works like Salome, Elektra and Intermezzo, and others will not perish. View quote
Arnold Schoenberg
Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. View quote
Matthew Simpson
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe. View quote
Revilo P. Oliver
In Vienna, Modernism had three main characteristics. The first was the new view of the human mind as being largely irrational by nature. ...they questioned what constitutes reality, what lies below the surface appearances of people, objects, and events. ...They discovered that ...people harbor not only unconscious erotic feelings, but also unconscious aggressive impulses that are directed against themselves as well as against others. Freud later called these dark impulses the death instinct. View quote
Eric Kandel
You do not know me,' said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself. View quote
Chinua Achebe
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb"He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. View quote
Chinua Achebe
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. View quote
Chinua Achebe
If experience is the soul of religion, expression is the body through which it fulfills its destiny. We have the spiritual facts and their interpretations by which they are communicated to others. It is the distinction between immediacy and thought. Intuitions abide, while interpretations change. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
We had a certain idea of our work, a respect for others, and above all, [we were determined] not to be paparazzi. For the photographer, curiosity is essential, the terrible counterpart is indiscretion, which is a lack of restraint. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
There are photographers who invent, others who discover. Personally, I am interested in discoveries, not for the trials or experiences but to capture life itself. I flee from the dangers of the anecdote and the picturesque, which are very easy and better than sensational, but quite as bad. To my mind, photography has the power to evoke, and must not simply document. We have to be abstract, just like nature. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are. View quote
Hafsat Abiola
When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time. View quote
Milorad Pavić
The players in a game are said to be in strategic equilibrium (or simply equilibrium) when their play is mutually optimal: when the actions and plans of each player are rational in the given strategic environment – i. e., when each knows the actions and plans of the others. View quote
Robert Aumann