Possibility Quotes
2817 quotes by 1843 authors
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The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the…
— Steven Pinker
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It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
— Kenneth Koch
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Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We read to find life, in all its possibilities.
— Claire Messud
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive…
— John Holdren
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The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends…
— Saul Alinsky
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray.…
— Jon Bon Jovi
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The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with…
— Karl Popper
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We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the…
— Emma Goldman
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First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
— Alva Myrdal
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state
— Iain Banks
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If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this:…
— Jean Baudrillard
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But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute…
— Paul Tillich
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We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields…
— Kathy Acker
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved...…
— Emmanuel Levinas
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As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean…
— Jürgen Moltmann
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There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women,…
— Gayl Jones
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of…
— June Jordan
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The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form…
— Georg Cantor
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