Currents Quotes - Page 5

• To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.

  Clay Shirky

  Wish, Groups, Tools

  4 Copy quote

• The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

  David Suzuki

  Economic, Flawed, Destructive

  4 Copy quote

• The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.

  Peter Greenberg

  Order, Income, Phds

  9 Copy quote

• Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

  Max Lucado

  Real, Triumph, Twins

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.157, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

  Argus Hamilton

  Iraq, Directors, Cash

  4 Copy quote

• I think a current understanding about urban behavior tells us that it's important that people get out and be able to get away from the concrete jungles and the dense environment where they live for their own mental well-being. If they don't do this, the costs in human loss and human sickness will be far greater than what we would be expending for these kinds of releases and open spaces.

  Barry Goldwater

  Loss, Thinking, Concrete Jungle

  18 Copy quote

• The span of a man is three score and 10, or thereabouts. As most Americans are not especially keen on availing themselves of the lessons contained in 6,000 years of recorded history, we have a tendency to believe that the current status quo is pretty much how the world has been and how it will always be.

  Theodore Beale

  Believe, Men, Years

  7 Copy quote

• It is true that all of the current presidential candidates once denied that they had any intention of running. But the fact that I am also a liar, doesn't make me a candidate.

  Pat Paulsen

  Running, Liars, Presidential

  13 Copy quote

• Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, War, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So far, the official definitions of terrorism have the role of demonizing the enemies of the United States and Israel, and of sanitizing recourse to indiscriminate force by both governments that causes widespread death of innocent civilians. This double standard is built around the current way in which the vocabulary of terrorism is being used in this country.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Vocabulary, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that might imagine a different sort of society from the dysfunctional, militarizing, and deeply unequal social order that marked the current historical period.

  Henry Giroux

  Order, Historical, Vision

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today's generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Battle, Today's Generation

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do not count – your agency is worthless, your experiences are worthless, and your voice should remain silent – but they are also told that there is no alternative to current state of affairs.

  Henry Giroux

  Voice, Agency, People

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, truthout.org. April 22, 2011.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment.

  Henry Giroux

  Moving, Political, Understanding

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Knowing Who You Are, Double Standard

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

  James Thayer

  Ideas, Suffering, Next

  4 Copy quote

• It's very easy to not know the stuff that you should know about the patient when you're seeing them. It's much easier with an electronic system to find them, because it's all right there and it should be current.

  William Davis

  Stuff, Patient, Easy

  4 Copy quote

• I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were 'all image' and my current ones are relatively abstract. The sense of the line changed with the theme, somehow my ear (or brain or heart/mind) fell in love with a short line and very very simple words.

  Gregory Orr

  Heart, Simple, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the more problematic aspects of the current state of cinema in Japan is that the movies playing in the theaters are by and large made not by film studios but by broadcasting companies. They're either extensions of popular television dramas or adaptations of manga or anime. Younger Japanese are simply not being exposed to good films. That situation needs to change.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Drama, Anime, Japan

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.

  Benjamin Stone

  Careers, Goal, Fit

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Zero, Bridges, Energy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Thinking, Goal, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.

  Bernie Glassman

  Fall, Rocks, Wind

  Source: onpoint.wbur.org

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.

  Mohammad Marandi

  War, Focus, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Pregnancy, Knowing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source