Our Present Quotes

228 quotes by 198 authors

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of… — Karl Marx
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any… — Vaclav Havel
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. — Margaret Fuller
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from… — Robert Silverberg
The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities.… — John C. Maxwell
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of… — Gautama Buddha
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial… — Sam Keen
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? — Paulo Freire
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty… — Russ Feingold
Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured. — Rick Warren
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,… — Douglas Engelbart
Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always… — Dalai Lama
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that… — Roy Jenkins
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption… — Maurice Strong
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou
If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can… — Lyndon B. Johnson
We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a… — Rowan Williams
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the… — Ivan Illich

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