Urgent Quotes - Page 16

• If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Betrayal, Names, Voice

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• The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others, wretched hovels by the side of stately colonnades, the rags of indigence blended with the ensigns of opulence; in a word, the most useless profusion in the midst of the most urgent wants.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Rags, Useless, Want

  "A Treatise On Political Economy". Book by Jean-Baptiste Say, p. I, 1932.

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• A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Daughter, Children, Parent

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 66, 1895.

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• If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

  Claud Cockburn

  Believe, Book, People

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Fighting, Men

  Mrs. Bush's Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 02, 2006.

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• the urgent crowds out the essential.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Priorities, Essentials, Crowds

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Writing, Men, Doe

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• I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sports, Pride, Sea

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther

  Men, Light, Creative

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• Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Action, Worship

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• Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

  David Souter

  Opportunity, Needs, Action

  "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.

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• Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

  Ian Bogost

  Ordinary, Can Do, Seems

  Source: app.longform.org

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• The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Knowing, Giving

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• Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest. They see the world as an urgent struggle between true believers and nonbelievers. They attempt to impose strict litmus tests and insist on conformity. They demonize dissent and consider all political opponents their enemies. Fear is their favourite tactic as they try to divide and conquer

  John Avlon

  Struggle, Small Numbers, People

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• To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Responsibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.

  Natalie Portman

  Winning, Voting, Firsts

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Terror Attacks, Mass Destruction

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Home, Winter

  Source: www.wired.com

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• At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?

  Emile Durkheim

  Character, Law, Division Of Labor

  "De la division du travail social (The Division of Labor in Society)". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 41 in 1947 translation of George Simpson), 1893.

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• We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Technology, Needs

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.

  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

  Believe, Home, Rights

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• The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Time, Children, Drinking

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• People have different interpretations of "urgent".

  Marco Arment

  Business, People, Different

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• Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to cherish and preserve it for future generations.

  Sigmund Jahn

  Space, Tasks, Generations

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• The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before.

  Judi Dench

  Needs, World, Global Warming

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