Frontiers Quotes - Page 5

• With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Strength, Crazy, Roots

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

  Joel Achenbach

  Inevitable, Uncertainty

  "What makes some people so suspicious of the findings of science?" by Joel Achenbach, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

  Lynda Obst

  Numbers, Directors, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression... All nations can coexist peacefully.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, War, Mean

  "Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War". Book by Ludwig von Mises, July 23, 1944.

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• What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.

  Brennan Manning

  Compassion, Heartfelt, Labels

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.58, NavPress

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• Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Men, Doors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Thinking, Assessment

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, "Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane." And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Men, Bridges

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Priorities, Innovation

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.

  Eric Foner

  Hero, Men, Race

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.

  Joseph Stalin

  Thinking, Germany, Purpose

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• [State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.

  Joseph Stalin

  Blow, Order, Break Through

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• You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.

  Chelsea Manning

  Thinking, World, Digital

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's time to restore the bonds of trust between citizens. Let us give thanks for all that we have and let us boldly face the exciting new frontiers that lie ahead.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Giving, Citizens

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There [in Afghanistan] is also a growing insurgency threat from al-Qaida, the Taliban and other extremist elements, some of which comes from the tribal areas of Pakistan, as well as from the Northwest Frontier province and Baluchistan.

  David Petraeus

  Pakistan, Elements, Growing

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• China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

  Dalai Lama

  Troops, Unions, Accepting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Compassion, Sick, Suffering

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• The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Finals, May, Humans

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• The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

  Bruce Sterling

  Ruins

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• Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

  Laird Barron

  Dark, Skills, House

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• All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Space, Innovation

  "Small, cheap and a giant leap for Britain" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like our spirits, shining like them with the prisoned radiance of electric hearts. For hours we had trampled our atavistic ennui into rich oriental rugs, arguing up to the last confines of logic and blackening many reams of paper with our frenzied scribbling.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Writing, Heart, Night

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009”, p.108, Haymarket Books

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