"I am not so different in my history……" — Susan Griffin
"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves."
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35 Quotes by Susan Griffin
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a…
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Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same…
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The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside…
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Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken,…
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public…
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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times,…
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The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence…
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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
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Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our…
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More Abandonment Quotes
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
— Julian Huxley
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
— Patrick Henry
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