Pemikiran Politik Quotes & Sayings

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of the earth, but also the earth's ability to produce. We will see that beauty and utility are alike dependent upon the health of the world. But we will also see through the fads and the fashions of protest. We will see that war and oppression and pollution are not separate issues, but are aspects of the same issue. Amid the outcries for the liberation of this group or that, we will know that no person is free except in the freedom of other persons, and that man's only real freedom is to know and faithfully occupy his place - a much humbler place than we have been taught to think - in the order of creation.
(pg.89, "Think Little") — Wendell Berry

It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient. — Judi Dench

To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality. — John Bradshaw

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them. — Barry Ritholtz

God gives God. That is the gift God always ultimately gives. Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. God gives God, and we only need to slow long enough to unwrap the greatest Gift with our time: time in His Word, time in His presence, time at His feet. — Ann Voskamp

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it. — Hugh Jackman

Those who complete the course will do so only because they do not, as fatigue sets in, convince themselves that the road ahead is still too long, the inclines too steep, the loneliness impossible to bear and the prize itself of doubtful value. — Thabo Mbeki

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities. — Joseph Rykwert

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results. — Friedrich Paneth

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other. — Ellen J. Barrier