Absence Quote by Jerzy Grotowski

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

— Richard Perle

“Conflicts are however a part of life: wherever people are together, there will be incompatibility in their thoughts, feelings or actions. It is enormously…

— Sylvia Loehken

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

— John Locke

The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

— Ruth Behar

When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are…

— Max De Pree

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

— Timothy Keller

“At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our…

— George Orwell

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…

— Wole Soyinka

“Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his…

— Solomon E. Asch

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

— Amor Towles

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The cause of human conflict is simple: one person dehumanizes another. One side sees the other side as unworthy. As long as people who…

— Paul Ferrini