Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Clay Shirky

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

David Ogden Stiers

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Cary Sherman

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Susan B. Anthony

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Walter Benjamin

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Bryant H. McGill

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Byron Katie

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Byron Katie

After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."

Bobby Ray Inman

Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.

Aristotle

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Alexander Hamilton

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Edmund Husserl

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Cleveland Abbe

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Carl Sagan

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.