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One Quotes by Barbara Deming
- I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies…
- The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point…
- Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in…
- It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.
- To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.
- After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint…
- We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting…
- Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope…
- The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if…
- Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
- To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts…
- To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle