Relation Quotes - Page 37

• Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.

  Rachel Carson

  Land, Water, Community

  "Essay on the Biological Sciences". Good Reading, 1958.

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• When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Body, Waking

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• Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate actions, but also, over the course of time, the form of our society. Our beliefs are increasingly determined by science. Hence it is at least conceivable that what science has been telling us for three hundred years about man and his place in nature could be playing by now an important role in our lives.

  Henry Stapp

  Men, Years, Roots

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• We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Agreement, Violence, Welcome

  "Concluding Speech Following the Discussion on the Report of Peace (October 26/November 8, 1917)". Collected Works, Volume 26, www.marxists.org.

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• Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Saws, Commodity

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• Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Weed, People, Growth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

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• And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

  Owen Barfield

  Essence, Language, Metaphorical

  Owen Barfield (1973). “Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning”, p.67, Wesleyan University Press

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• Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

  Charles Jencks

  Space, Perspective, Elements

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• Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely ‘lipstick’ cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change... Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients: Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, “as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Cutting, Thinking, Doctors

  "Deadly Doctors" by Betsy McCaughey, nypost.com. July 24, 2009.

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• Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, People, Missing

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
  bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
  relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
  cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
  thousandfold more precious.

  Gardner Murphy

  Struggle, Views, Mind

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• True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Blood, Spirit

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Sleep, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

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• Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

  Marcus Aurelius

  All Time, Following, Whole

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 375), 1895.

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• Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Allies, World

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.27, Best Books on

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• There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Three, Body, Causes

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.88, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Advice, Chivalry

  "The Lily of the Valley". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1835.

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• The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Views

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• Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.

  James Anthony Froude

  Giving, Half, Charity

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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• That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Serious Person, Imagination

  "The Nemesis of Faith". Book by James Anthony Froude, 1849.

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• That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Groups, Doe

  Writing for the court in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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• the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

  Ralph Ellison

  Ornery, World, Wonderful

  Ralph Ellison (1994). “Invisible man”, Random House Inc

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• No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Hands

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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