Sawhill Reservation Quotes & Sayings

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know? — Wendell Berry

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever. — Margaret Keane

Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony. — Confucius

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border. — Viviane Reding

We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self. — Frederick Lenz

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. — Napoleon Hill

Therein resides the fundamental systemic violence of capitalism, much more uncanny than direct pre-capitalist socio-ideological violence: its violence is no longer attributable to concrete individuals with their 'evil' intentions, but is purely 'objective,' systemic, anonymous
quite literally a conceptual violence, the violence of a Concept whose self-deployment rules and regulates social realty. — Slavoj Zizek

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means. — George Bernard Shaw

You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers. — Noah Hawley

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart. — Gerard Butler

For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different. — Gustavo Dudamel